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Great, so we just gotta "ship your bare OS" to prod. That's exactly what a container is for. Container is just a logical isolation tool that works at the dist

• v3ss0n 3y ago
  > Great, so we just gotta "ship your bare OS" to prod. Back in 2008 , We ship by DDing the whole disk :D
• andrewstuart 3y ago
  What’s wrong with shipping source code? Containers add huge complexity, for what?
  • braza 3y ago
    I think complexity can have multiple interpretations, especially in a fragmented discipline as software engineering. However, at least for me containers solves 3 main source of problems to shipping code in a current software environment: (1) somewhat consistency around runtime environment between production, development and homologation (2) a portable way to deliver software (just create the image) and (3) packaging between source code and runtime. I started my career at the late-2000s and at least in my experience the code itself was the least of issues because we needed to develop something in a environment to be delivered at a runtime in another, transfer the files via FTP or replace files with _.old and making sure that it would work in all places.