How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my container”

Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by stavros on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:27PM (#36887146)

Agreed, and the fact that I can launch and develop my web app from seven years ago, no matter how much my environment has changed, is a lifesaver.

There's a lot of code I've written that's not deployable any more because the versions of the dependencies it was using don't exist on my OS any more, and are too old to install.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by friendzis on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:43AM (#36889816)

As long as you have saved the container image and contents of all mapped volumes somewhere. Which is not much different from snapshotting a VM.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by imtringued on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:43PM (#36898282)

Snapshotting a VM is a pain in the ass. It takes forever and the tooling sucks. The concept of snapshotting is also completely wrong. Snapshots are tied to a VM with the specific VM being front and center, you know, the thing that is disposable with containers.

Also, from my misadventures with Ubuntu VMs I always ran into the problem of them breaking over time.

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