On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:38:36 +0200, "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <l...@metux.net> wrote: >Containerization is a valid approach for some kind of workloads >(eg. specific inhouse applications) that can be easily isolated from >the rest. But it comes with the price of huge redundancies (depending >on how huge some application stacks are). And unless everybody wants >to go back of maintaining everything on his own, we still need distros.
Compared to a full VM, a container _is_ smaller. I am not sure whether the difference is as huge in times where we have kernel same-page merging though. Do we have a build technology that uses containers instead of chroots yet? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834