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Re: Debian and our frenemies of containers and userland repos



On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:38:36 +0200, "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult"
<lkml@metux.net> wrote:
>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.

Compared to a full VM, a container _is_ smaller. I am not sure whether
the difference is as huge in times where we have kernel same-page
merging though.

Do we have a build technology that uses containers instead of chroots
yet?

Greetings
Marc
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