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I agree. Containers should be unnecessary -- all that they could provide could be done at the process level with an operating system designed to isolate comput

I agree. Containers should be unnecessary -- all that they could provide could be done at the process level with an operating system designed to isolate computing resources appropriately. But operating systems were not historically designed for that so another (somewhat ridiculous) layer is added on top.

AlphaSite 10y ago
Thats all containers are? They are an abstraction over OS level isolation.
apexalpha 10y ago
actually all containers do is utilise the very design in an OS like LXC in Linux to form containers. Containers are not a platform on top of Linux, they are a wrapper around different isolation tools build into the kernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC