Re: Linux Daily?
  By: Deon George to Eric Renfro on Thu Jul 25 2019 07:19 pm

 >> Hmmm... I don't much particularly like docker so much. I sort of liked
 >> the idea of it when they were still using lxc concepts with it, but
 >> when they switched to libcontainer, that... That pretty much ended it
 >> for me for anything security-minded. Reliability minded too, actually.

 DG> Oh, that's a shame.

 DG> I'm a huge fan of docker. I like how I can shift stuff around fairly
 DG> easily, and that I can seperate data (aligned with a specific version of
 DG> an app) to an application container (of a specific version). It makes it
 DG> easy to shelve stuff and revive it later (or backout of a failed upgrade
 DG> fairly easily). 

I mean, you can technically do all that without the need for docker or even any
kind of complex setup at all. Docker doesn't actually bring anything new there,
just more complexity in order to achieve it really. 

 DG> I too develop, on my MAC, so its no effort to get a container running on
 DG> it, then using that same container on the (production) linux system.

This part, in more recent times anyway, is true, however... There are going to
be some unique differences in even that, which is partly a problem. Containers
definitely have some universal aspects they can do, and then they also have
some that will be hardware/OS different which can (and will) cause issues in
certain situations.

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