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Re:Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HT... by pjmlp on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:11AM (#26911474)
Assuming that source and target hardware are the same, otherwise VMs enter into the picture, and stuff like Kata Containers add even more layers.

Then I remember Linus point of view about monolitic kernels and how they are supposed to beat micro-kernels, what for, when people put hundreds of virtualization layers on top.

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Re:Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HT... by dolmen on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:53AM (#26915326)
Well as Docker even abstracts VMs (you can build and run a Linux/amd64 container from a MacOS/amd64 (soon MacOS/arm64 also)) the target OS and hardware become more and more just a deployment detail.
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Re:Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HT... by pjmlp on Saturday April 24, 2021 @04:40AM (#26923357)
Docker doesn't abstract VMs, it rather needs one to package Linux along for the party.
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