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I never understood why people use Docker. QEMU exists
by jhatemyjob 6y ago
I never understood why people use Docker. QEMU exists
- pknopf 6y agoDocker is about the tooling, not the namespaces.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoQEMU can be used as tooling as well, see my other responses
- jnwatson 6y agoApples and oranges. Containers aren’t VMs.
- jhatemyjob 6y agoThey both serve a similar purpose, isolate guest userspace from the host and provide reproducible environments. Instead of a Dockerfile I have a shell script that spins up a VM and installs the dependencies for me
- Traubenfuchs 6y agoWhether it was luck or hard facts, Docker became the standard and default nearly to a point where juniors only knowing how to program a "Hello World!" webservice will dockerize it. It's an ubiquitous technical skill like basic SQL. As someone who has very low interest in container technology itself, I have zero reason to inform myself about QUEMU..
- jhatemyjob 6y agohttps://qemu.org https://qemu.org is VM host software, like VirtualBox, but FOSS. Instead of a Dockerfile I have a shell script spin up a VM and install the dependencies for me.