Hi all, On 22.07.19 12:38, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > COOS: just yet another special purpose distro, in that case for > docker hosts. neither the first, nor the last one to come. > Yocto: just yet another compile-yourself distro, focused on embeedded, > that happens to be hyped by certain corporations. > (for small/embedded devices, I'd really recommend ptxdist). > Alpine: yet another distro, optimized for running in small containers Just a shame it seems the default for everyone and their cat to use it as a base image. Recent article re Python container images: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/base-image-python-docker-images/ > Containerization is a valid approach for some kind of workloads > (eg. specific inhouse applications) that can be easily isolated from > the rest. But it comes with the price of huge redundancies (depending > on how huge some application stacks are). And unless everybody wants > to go back of maintaining everything on his own, we still need distros. > > If different applications need to deeply interact (eg. various plugin > stuff, applications calling each other, etc), containerization doesn't > help much. (eg: how can you have a pure texlive in one container and > extra things like fonts, document classes, etc, in separate ones ? :o) > > The whole point about containerization isn't about packaging and > deployment of individual applications - instead it's about automatizing > the rollout of fully-configured installations. Good points! Best Michael
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