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I sort of agree with this, but the advantage I see of Docker is in providing a "standard" (ymmv) interface that's less heavyweight than running an entire simula
by ForHackernews 7y ago
I sort of agree with this, but the advantage I see of Docker is in providing a "standard" (ymmv) interface that's less heavyweight than running an entire simulated virtual machine, but less dependent on the idiosyncrasies of a specific environment.
I can give my coworker a docker image and it mostly "just work" without failing because she happens to be running a slightly different version of Ubuntu with different system libraries present.
- rlpb 7y agoI think the author's point is: > I can give my coworker a docker image and it mostly "just work" without failing because she happens to be running a slightly different version of Ubuntu with different system libraries present. "I can give my coworker a VM image and it mostly "just work" without failing because she happens to be running a slightly different version of Ubuntu with different system libraries present." and also: "I can give my coworker a full system container image and it mostly "just work" without failing because she happens to be running a slightly different version of Ubuntu with different system libraries present."
- ForHackernews 7y agoYeah, but a VM with virtualized hardware running a whole OS is so overkill for this use case.