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> Docker (or rather, cgroups and image distribution) have been standardised Cgroups, namespaces have been implemented once, in Linux, by Google for their own n
by tannhaeuser 4y ago
> Docker (or rather, cgroups and image distribution) have been standardised
Cgroups, namespaces have been implemented once, in Linux, by Google for their own needs. Not standardized in any meaningful interpretation of that word, just like "web standards" aren't. With now a generation of developers raised by big media and fake grassroots and staged march of progress stories, I'm wondering if that generation will be able to tell the difference, or are invested too much already.
- stingraycharles 4y agoYeah, you’re right of course; my point was more that somehow we ended up with a “standard” format to store and distribute images, have plethora of tools that are able to run it, but they’re all using the same kernel fundamentals (cgroups). But all that would be a distraction from the point I was trying to make, so I simplified it a bit.
- tannhaeuser 4y agoWhat you're meaning is that "we" have converged on tech dominated by big cloud vendors. A standard, OTOH, is something implemented by more than a single party. Unix (POSIX) used to be standardized in that way. Portability, sustainability, and avoiding dominance by a single party was always the point of Unix; as on OS, Unix wasn't particularly innovative but merely good enough and compact, even when it was new.
- babarock 4y agoThen what are foundations like CNCF (https://www.cncf.io/ https://www.cncf.io/) doing? I'm asking honestly, if there's any difference between CNCF and any other standards governing body.