Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
by hvidgaard on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:15AM
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I don't think it's fair to blame containers for that. Just because someone programs a shitty product in Visual Studio, does not mean it's a problem with Visual Studio.
What containers does beautifully is dependency containment. I make something and put it inside a container, with the exact dependency it needs and it'll work alongside other containers with a program that might have a different incompatible dependency.
What we're seeing is not so much that developers suddenly decides to throw best practice into the wind. They just do not have to put the same amount of effort into fixing the broken process exactly because we have dependency containment. I believe we would see the same mess without containers, and the process change that would fix one would fix the other.
What containers does beautifully is dependency containment. I make something and put it inside a container, with the exact dependency it needs and it'll work alongside other containers with a program that might have a different incompatible dependency.
What we're seeing is not so much that developers suddenly decides to throw best practice into the wind. They just do not have to put the same amount of effort into fixing the broken process exactly because we have dependency containment. I believe we would see the same mess without containers, and the process change that would fix one would fix the other.