That’s just one part of Docker. The other part is the security aspects; you cannot “escape” the container (easily). This cannot be achieved with plain static li

That’s just one part of Docker. The other part is the security aspects; you cannot “escape” the container (easily). This cannot be achieved with plain static linking, but you’ll need cgroups etc for that. Docker just combined these concepts elegantly in a way that “clicked” with many people, and was fairly pragmatic. The only major complaint I have about docker is its client/server model, it just makes so many things more complicated. It seems podman is doing great work in this area though.