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Isn't docker running on OS X in VM anyway?
by krimeo 6y ago
Isn't docker running on OS X in VM anyway?
- bruce_one 6y agoYes it does, but it's very transparent - until you run into a few things that make it obvious, eg if you disk-image size limits, or memory limits. I work with a few people who believed it was native, and used it for quite a while, until things started going wrong and we logged in to the vm to fix them.
- krimeo 6y agoKinda my point. The reason docker is popular is simply that most of the devs are lazy, not very knowledgeable in the actual underlying technology and very short-sighted. And docker marketing has very effectively used that to their advantage.
- scns 6y agoYes it is, but docker for desktop runs it for you. You could use LXD etc by running Linux yourself in a virtualisation solution of your choice like VirtualBox or VMWare.
- krimeo 6y agoYeah, that's my point. On Linux you are going to run docker in VM anyway if you care a bit about security, but I know that almost all devs run docker directly on their laptops and with the user's full access to docker - ie. their user effectively becomes user. Without second thought ...
- krimeo 6y ago* becomes root, of course