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I don't want to come across as disagreeing with you, but can someone explain the complexity they see in docker/containerization? It's always seemed to me as no
by n0w 8y ago
I don't want to come across as disagreeing with you, but can someone explain the complexity they see in docker/containerization?
It's always seemed to me as nothing more than a way to package a (mostly) preconfigured piece of software.
- hguhghuff 8y ago“Storage containers”, “network port mapping”, “layers”, I don’t even know the terms for actual images versus instructions to build images. Containers aren’t even encapsulated like virtual machines, they are tightly bound to the kernel of the host. Ugh, nightmare. Then management of all this. Ugh. Complex, complicated and has necessitated effectively building operating system infrastructure within an already complex operating system to facilitate all this complexity. Which bit of this is simple?
- n0w 8y agoI've never felt like any of this was "added" complexity though, just different complexity. Managing a full operating system inside a virtual machine or packaging an application for installation with dpkg/rpm/etc is not any simpler, it's just the complexity we have suffered with to date so we are more familiar with it.