Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
by kkfx on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:45AM
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NixOS and Guix System offer a far lighter and more reproducible approach, who also not push many running images build by unknown on the internet direct in production, full of outdated deps, wasting in the meantime storage and cpu resources...
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Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
by oneplane on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:51AM
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Yet it doesn't even come close to a fraction of the adoption scale of containers, no matter how good it is. Ecosystems matter more than individual quality.
Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @10:17AM
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I think that's a gross overstatement. Ecosystems matter, yes. But they don't matter more than quality.
Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
by oneplane on Friday May 17, 2024 @11:44AM
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I think Betamax might have something to say about that.
Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
by kkfx on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @08:58AM
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That's because some interested parties have advertised containers, because they are good to sell as pre-built stuff, nice to sell VPS and alike etc, while pure IaC is useful for anyone and invite NOT to be dependent on third party platforms.
It's not a technical matter, it's a human, economical matter and actually... Most people are poor, following the largest scale means following poverty not a good thing.