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I lover docker as much as the next pseudo-sysadmin (dev forced to do admin work), but I think the analogy with packing containers is a bit of a stretch. LXC wor
by secstate 13y ago
I lover docker as much as the next pseudo-sysadmin (dev forced to do admin work), but I think the analogy with packing containers is a bit of a stretch. LXC works only on Linux. It's not gonna help you with BSDs, OpenSolaris or Windows.
Additionally, a lot of this feels like Docker is taking credit for LXC. Docker is a brilliant abstraction of LXC's obscure native interface, but LXC came before Docker and does most of the heavy lifting.
- stfp 13y agoTo your second point - I think you're right, but I think that pattern - the productization of existing technology - is a very powerful, positive thing. And picking the right abstraction, so that it feels - as you put it - brilliant (a view I share totally), is not trivial. Also FWIW, on giving credit: https://twitter.com/getdocker/status/357983297114079233 https://twitter.com/getdocker/status/357983297114079233
- secstate 13y agoFor sure, I didn't mean to downplay how important tools like Docker are, just that it may not be as revolutionary as the shipping container. I think some other comments above make a better argument about how the full power of containers has yet to be realized.
- icebraining 13y agoAs far as I now, the idea is that Docker won't be tied to LXC, but able to use different container technologies, like jails and zones.