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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by amelius on Sunday December 23, 2018 @09:55AM (#18746363)
> I know, I know, now you're asking "well, why didn't someone just put all the tools together in one box that would do it with one sane UI?!"

> They did. It's called Docker.

Yes I see that. But I was hoping more for a toolbox like GNU fileutils, not a toolbox with a billion dollar valuation (which is what Docker is)

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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by icebraining on Sunday December 23, 2018 @10:51AM (#18746700)
If you're already using systemd, there's systemd-nspawn.
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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by ytjohn on Sunday December 23, 2018 @10:29AM (#18746589)
Take a look at rkt. It seems like it would be much closer as it does script based container execution.

https://coreos.com/rkt/

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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by meddlepal on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:52PM (#18748569)
Rkt is pretty much dead as a standalone technology. It was influential in a number of ways though (for example, it forced the CRI to come into existence in Kubernetes).
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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by zbentley on Sunday December 23, 2018 @11:57AM (#18747074)
> I was hoping more for a toolbox like GNU fileutils, not a toolbox with a billion dollar valuation

What do you see as the primary differences between those two projects, or types of projects?

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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by alexandre_m on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:10PM (#18748676)
podman: https://github.com/containers/libpod
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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by groestl on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:51PM (#18747330)
Well, there is unshare. The problem really is network devices, which require tinkering with C.
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Re:Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers a... by maccio92 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:58PM (#18747358)
So because a tool is valuable you don't want to use it?
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