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Re:How did we end up with containers? by zokier on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:04PM (#16767956)
> If you can just reboot the machine, do that, it's easier; otherwise you have to track down who was using the old binary and restart each one of them

Of course it is arguable that if your system is setup so that you can not afford to reboot a single server, then you are in pretty poor shape to begin with. When I was young, long uptimes were such cool thing. Nowdays I see them more as a liability or smell that something is iffy.

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Re:How did we end up with containers? by deathanatos on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:20PM (#16768869)
Oh, I completely agree. I think what soured me is when something like OpenSSL pushes a critical bug. It affects basically everything, so you're close to guaranteed to learn what machines are snowflakes.
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