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> many uses of containers are ... statically linked binaries in a more complicated form I have found that to be true in at least one case—I had built a custom
by brian_cunnie 5y ago
> many uses of containers are ... statically linked binaries in a more complicated form
I have found that to be true in at least one case—I had built a custom DNS server in Go (statically linked), and originally planned to run it in a container, but on further reflection realized the container brought no added value, and it was much simpler to write a systemd service control script than to bring in the extra baggage of a container ecosystem to run the DNS server.
- ric2b 5y agoThat's a very basic example. Let's say your program also depends on ffmpeg to convert some images, psql to interact with a database and a few other non-library dependencies. With containers you can trivially ensure those are always present and with the correct versions. Plus containers do give you some security benefits when compared to running natively.