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Can we please stop sounding the trumpet of "progress"? Containers have been around for nearly a couple of decades (possibly more if you extend the definition),
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Can we please stop sounding the trumpet of "progress"? Containers have been around for nearly a couple of decades (possibly more if you extend the definition), since IBM i had LPARs.
There's nothing fast-moving or technologically novel about, especially, Linux containers.
- fatherlinnux 11y agoYeah, but the layered images and copy on write nature of Docker has not and IMHO, that is what is novel about this new wave of containers.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoUnion mounts? Those are at least 25 years old.
- fatherlinnux 11y agoJust add registry server, that's where the magic is.
- icedchai 11y agoIf I remember correctly from my AIX days (a while back, admittedly), LPARs are more like VMs than containers. Though you are still correct... virtualization goes back decades!