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"Containerization is now state of the art and therefore the application is delivered in a container." I wouldn't say it is "state of the art". Solaris had cont
by crazyricardo 6y ago
"Containerization is now state of the art and therefore the application is delivered in a container."
I wouldn't say it is "state of the art". Solaris had containers in 2004/2005.
- TJSomething 6y ago"State of the art" doesn't really indicate age. It just means that there's nothing better. I'd be interested in learning about anything that's better than containers.
- crazyricardo 6y agostate of the art /ˌstād ə(v) T͟Hə ˈärt/ phrase of state the most recent stage in the development of a product, incorporating the newest ideas and the most up-to-date features. incorporating the newest ideas and the most up-to-date features. "a new state-of-the-art hospital"
- SifJar 6y agonewest =/= new something can be quite old, but if nothing has replaced it, it's still "newest" and "most up-to-date"
- geofft 6y agoSolaris had zones, which are similar to LXC or OpenVZ, which Linux had almost as long ago. But neither Solaris zones nor LXC/OpenVZ envisioned the sort of container in which this application is being delivered. (The key insight here is that "containerization" in the modern sense is about norms/expectations/practices and an ecosystem of tooling around a particular design that's convenient for certain use cases; it's not about a technical facility in the OS.)
- folmar 6y agoDelivering applications in chroot/jail had some momentum circa 2003. The tooling was on par with current docker if chosen wisely, but surely not on the level of vagrant/docker-compose/docker swarm/kubernetes.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoSurprised nobody else has mentioned the irony of delivering this - a tool designed to help you hand-edit configuration on a pet server - in a container.