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Docker is bad because while docker images crudely compose sequentially (the fs layers), docker files don't compose at all. The goal of Nix and Nixpkgs is to ha
by Ericson2314 7y ago
Docker is bad because while docker images crudely compose sequentially (the fs layers), docker files don't compose at all.
The goal of Nix and Nixpkgs is to have effient recipes for building everything ever, in all configurations. The docker ecosystem could never get there.
Now containers do make sense for deployment, but that has little to do with docker, as those docker replacements for kubernetes demonstrate.
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago> The goal of Nix and Nixpkgs is to have effient recipes for building everything ever, in all configurations. The docker ecosystem could never get there. Packaging is just one component of a container, and it actually works quite well in docker, since it feels like you’re packaging up the entire OS.