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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by rambossa on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:03PM (#17084099)
> Ever tried to security update a container?

Wouldnt the approach for security updates be to replace the container?

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by icebraining on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:12PM (#17084198)
Depends on the approach, you can use mutable or immutable containers. In fact, the OpenVZ VPSs that were at one time reasonably popular were just containers.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by nunez on Thursday May 17, 2018 @12:29AM (#17088728)
Pretty much. Update the image or do the update in a container based off of the old image and package that
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