Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget

Re:Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget by afiori on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:03AM (#33519729)

Indeed the docker revolution was the Dockerfile and container images: the latter a convenient way to store and share container binaries and the former a convenient way to define recipes for the latter.

This is also what they are trying to do with wasm and what (in part) GitHub did with git: creating a developer ecosystem.

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Re:Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget by adamgordonbell on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:08AM (#33519790)

I never thought of the parallels to git but that is interesting.

So git is to github as (chroot/cgroups/unionfs) is to docker et all?

What is the VC company that is going to spring up around WASM?

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Re:Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget by afiori on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @11:01AM (#33520438)

Docker itself is trying to expand into wasm applications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320530

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Re:Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget by treffer on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:17AM (#33528374)

> So git is to github as (chroot/cgroups/unionfs) is to docker et all?

You could do docker-alike runtime things with lxc and e.g. squashfs filesystems. That is IMHO a good signal to say it's not the tech.

I see it more as developer workflows. Github looked at git and LKML working model and put that into a centralized UI. The revolution was individual contribution (not teams) and personal repositories. (Does anyone remember the other scm hosting tools before? I remember running some open source sorceforge alike thing)

Docker took all the pieces before you could run a container and made those easy to achieve (building, sharing, pulling, ...).

That's developer workflows.

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Re:Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget by suprjami on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:19PM (#33526865)

Very insightful comment.

The developer ecosystem is always the primary path to success.

The same thing with Raspberry Pi. There are a million $notmuch single board computers with fruit names, but the Raspberry Pi has dominated much more powerful systems for 10 years now because of its top-tier software.

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