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
--
-------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! -----
Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header
Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " |
Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
Reply to: