How did we end up with containers?

Re:How did we end up with containers? by mkozlows on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:02PM (#16768386)

Although the counter-argument is, I've seen a whole bunch of cases where OSes weren't updated because this one old app wouldn't work on the new thing, so unmaintained legacy apps are always a problem.

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Re:How did we end up with containers? by hinkley on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:32PM (#16769365)

True. Can't update python because we are running our internal tool Dingus 2.1 on this machine.

But in that case you might have 3 teams putting pressure on the Dingus team to upgrade their stuff. If they can just retort with "run it in a container dummy" then they have no incentive to ever fix it.

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Re:How did we end up with containers? by lowbloodsugar on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:35PM (#16769386)

side-eyes windows xp box controlling a machine

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