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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 04:33:12PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I don't see the part where all these latest fancy container thingymagicies |
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> > are not really just "embed everything in everything" |
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> > We've known for years the dangers of embedding stuff in packages (it hardly |
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> > ever gets updated properly) |
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> Well, that strikes me as being true of these self-contained packages, |
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> but it isn't necessarily true of containers in general. |
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> I run most of my services in containers, and they're just Gentoo |
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> installations with a really small world file. Things are just as |
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> up-to-date as they would be if I ran it all in a single host. |
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> Now, if you're the sort of person who just grabs some random docker |
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> image from who knows where, then sure you're getting a big bundle of |
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> stuff that may or may not be maintained for security. This is no |
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> different. |
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I don't follow this stuff, so this may be a stupid question... how |
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does a "container" or "docker" differ from a chroot or a QEMU VM with a |
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minimal set of applications? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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