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Containers are a crappy abstraction and VMware fumbled the bag, is my takeaway from this comment…

• sofixa 3y ago
  > VMware fumbled the bag Oh they did, they're a modern day IBM. > Containers are a crappy abstraction They're one of the best abstractions we have (so far) because they contain only the application and what it needs.
  • crabbone 3y ago
    > they contain only the application and what it needs. Delusion level: over 9900. I'm yet to find a container that contains only the application and what it needs. Most of the time I find that they contain at least libc and libpthreads (which are already present on the host, so not needed). More often I find metric tonnes of garbage that was not necessary by any metric, but was just too hard to remove, so was allowed to stay.
    • demi56 3y ago
      Blame that to glibc not the container