Docker does seem to be quite the enabler. It seems to be enabling sloppy programmers, and encouraging users that don't know how to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to go straight for root access. Too many cooks and all.
On 06:10PM Wed 01/28/15 +0100, Andrew Holway wrote: > This is the problem that I think everyone using Docker now is looking to > > solve. How can you distribute an app in a reasonable manner an remove all > > of the silliness you don't need in the app distribution that the base OS > > can solve. > > > > Its seems to encourage users to "do whatever they want in the container; > bypassing years of hard work by the Linux distributions." We recently threw > out docker as a technology and are instead using RPM's as it kind of forces > us to answer all the hard questions such as "what about SELinux" and "How > do we drop privileges". Docker was encouraging us to do very sloppy work. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Gavin W. Burris Senior Project Leader for Research Computing The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
