Re:Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget
by hotpotamus on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:42AM
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If you ever watch "Connections" by James Burke (and everyone should), you'll see that basically anything we see as a breakthrough technology is really just a long series of progressive refinements - it's evolution all the way down. And nearly all the physical laws/effects/discoveries named after one person (for instance the Kuiper belt around our solar system) were actually discovered by groups of people working over time.
Yeah, for sure and containers are great. Namespaces, cgroups v2, runC, overlayfs, the OCI image format, and everything else in this space is impressive engineering. It’s incredible forward progress we can all take advantage of. But it's fun to peal back the layers and see it’s a long series of progressive refinements.