Re:Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux a...
by lmm on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:55AM
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> What other solution for the easy portability do you know? Or how would you propose to handle this?
Puppet for the server-automation part. Languages that make it easy to produce a "fat binary" for the isolation part.
Docker solves a real problem for languages where deployment is a mess, like Python. It just grates on me when the same people who spent the last 10 years mocking Java (which does essentially the useful parts of docker) are suddenly enthusiastic about the same kind of solution to the same kind of problem now that it has a trendy name.
Puppet for the server-automation part. Languages that make it easy to produce a "fat binary" for the isolation part.
Docker solves a real problem for languages where deployment is a mess, like Python. It just grates on me when the same people who spent the last 10 years mocking Java (which does essentially the useful parts of docker) are suddenly enthusiastic about the same kind of solution to the same kind of problem now that it has a trendy name.