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Re:Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs by sagichmal on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:03AM (#13984481)
> Static libraries can't be replaced/updated post-deployment

And that's great news. Immutable deployment artifacts let us reason about our systems much more coherently.

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Re:Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs by empthought on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @07:26AM (#13985048)
No, they prevent an entire class of reasoning from needing to take place. It is still possible to reason coherently in the face of mutable systems, and people still "reason" incoherently about immutable ones.
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