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> Installing databases is trivial, with any of `brew`, `yum`, or `apt-get`.

yes. For once database version and one single data set. If you handle multiple customers, multiple versions of a software suite to support which target specific versions of a DB, containers or VMs are handy.

I don't do my dev in a container. That always seemed stupid for me. But my dependencies are in containers.



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