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Some would say the orchestration layer is quite important

• betaby 9y ago
  And people were running cfengine inside FreeBSD jails and Linux vservers in early 2000 already.
  • pmoriarty 9y ago
    Wow, and I thought I was the only one who remembers Linux vservers. Whenever I tell people I was using them 15 years ago, people look at me like I'm crazy. I was beginning to think I dreamed it all. Now here's Docker getting mountains of press for seemingly reinventing the wheel. But, to be fair, cgroups didn't exist back in the days of Linux vservers, so there was no easy way to constrain per-vserver resource use as there is now, the isolation wasn't as complete as with Docker, and there was no use of layered filesystems so you couldn't build up a Linux vserver layer by layer as you can a Docker container. It was still very useful back then, though. Way ahead of its time, and it's a shame most people never knew it even ever existed.