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Re:Running containers without Docker by indexerror on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @11:16PM (#12802670)
> docker has a daemon that exposes an HTTP API

This API has to enabled explicitly. Docker daemon works by using a unix socket instead ( "/var/run/docker.sock" ).

> acts more or less like an init for containers

There is Docker daemon and there is Docker CLI. Both have separate scopes.

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Re:Running containers without Docker by gnosek on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:36AM (#12803454)
> There is Docker daemon and there is Docker CLI. Both have separate scopes.

Docker CLI is glorified curl, everything happens in the daemon (containerd being logically -- but finally not physically -- part of the daemon).

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Re:Running containers without Docker by TheDong on Thursday October 27, 2016 @01:06AM (#12803049)
The unix socket actually serves an HTTP api (just not over tcp) as well, so the statement was true either way.
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