"It works on my machine" is the oldest joke in software, and containers were supposed to kill it....
"It works on my machine" is the oldest joke in software, and containers were supposed to kill it. Same image everywhere, same behavior everywhere — that's the whole pitch. So there's a special kind of betrayal when a container that runs perfectly on your laptop lands in the cluster and dies instantly with four unhelpful words:
exec /app/server: exec format error
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Here's the afternoon that error cost me, and the thing it turned out to be teaching.
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