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If only there were some way to describe in a few lines of text what an image should contain?
by SandB0x 11y ago
If only there were some way to describe in a few lines of text what an image should contain?
- Animats 11y agoDo Docker images really have to contain an entire bloated Linux distro? Even for Xen, which, as a hypervisor, provides fewer services than Docker, it's possible to write applications which run directly under Xen.
- errordeveloper 11y agoThey don't have to, one can run static binary without any problems. It's just that most people keep throwing in a whole distro...
- iso8859-1 11y agoYou can't make a truly static binary with glibc, so almost no one has a toolchain that is able to do it.
- michaelmior 11y agoWhat do you mean by "truly static"?
- iso8859-1 11y agoOne that doesn't try to load dynamic objects on runtime like glibc does, if you use certain functions.
- zobzu 11y agoim not sure why one wouldnt want a whole distro tho - it makes debugging, testing, etc far easier.