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Re:Run More Stuff in Docker by infogulch on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:00AM (#25549206)
Isolation and reproducibility
Re:Run More Stuff in Docker by eptcyka on Sunday December 27, 2020 @04:44AM (#25549966)
At the end of the day, all the docker images depend on a lot of ./configure && make install, if not a lot of apt-get installs, which are often not reproducible. You don't get reproducibility unless you've done it all the way down the chain.
Re:Run More Stuff in Docker by Spivak on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:31AM (#25549311)
Not the most useful for software intended to be used on your local machine. You don’t get the isolation benefits because the whole point is to give the container broad privilege so you can use it as if it was a native utility. Docker also doesn’t make a non-reproducible build process reproducible.

At the end of the day if you have a precompiled self-contained artifact Docker is just a convoluted way of calling exec.