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Re:Learn Docker by building a Microservice by davexunit on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @12:30PM (#11815773)
Functional package managers solve the same problems, but do it better and come with additional features like unprivileged package management, transactional upgrades and rollbacks, and bit-reproducible builds.
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Re:Learn Docker by building a Microservice by alistproducer2 on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:22PM (#11816860)
In your opinion, how is this superior to just building a container?

Also, could such a package manager be used to deploy to clusters?

I'm not being facetious, I'm trying to understand your rationale for using a PM over Docker for similar use cases.

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Re:Learn Docker by building a Microservice by dorfsmay on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:17PM (#11816214)
Notice I said "one way". I wanted to counter the arguments that writing better software remove the need for something like docker.

Are talking about something like NIX?

How do you handle other type of installs such as python pip?

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