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Re:The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git Hist... by matt_kantor on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:37PM (#17278863)
All of the items in your mono-container advantage list go away if you consider the alternative of having a bunch of separate images that share a common base image.

Image layers are immutable and get deduplicated/cached individually when stored or sent over the network. For example if you pull 10 images with a common base to the same host, the first image might be slow to download but after that docker only fetches the deltas between it and the rest.

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Re:The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git Hist... by BillinghamJ on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:23PM (#17280499)
I am well aware of that. That doesn’t change the significant decrease in admin time spent, or the improvement in usability for our engineers.
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