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"Red Hat is working hard to make OS Containers easier by enabling systemd to run inside a container" Redhat is still refusing to admit that containers highligh
by teknopaul 9y ago
"Red Hat is working hard to make OS Containers easier by enabling systemd to run inside a container"
Redhat is still refusing to admit that containers highlight systemd's weaknesses.
Containers benefit from simple init. The systemd argument has become so religious iside RH now they are blind to the fact that, for all systemd's benefits on a laptop linux install, it complicates a container.
Its affecting their position on containers badly, because they have no middle ground between "full os" and "1 bin per container". Everyone else can see that sshd in a container is not _ideal_ but a handy stop gap sometimes, as long as you dont then stuff the container with stuff you dont actually use. Redhat are blind to that and, as a customer, its horrible. They refuse to "support" simple RHEL OS containers, i.e. a container without systemd.
Its a full RHEL vm or Docker, or your warranty is void. This makes migration to containers hard for us. Its probably counter productive for Redhat because when we do go full "bin per container", RHEL is out of the picture entirely.