The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers

Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by devy on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @12:29PM (#9421569)

The 'curl | sudo bash' mention reminds me of OS X Homebrew. The one-liner installation script is still published in the home page front and center (though it's running from a trusted source Github).

http://brew.sh/

One might argue that that easy of oneliner installer script is exactly what make Homebrew gains popularity. And dev machine is different from production environment in terms installation packages. Still, I agree that proper container management in local network and perhaps new security features from upstream container vendors would help the situation.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by squar1sm on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:03PM (#9421815)

I agree, I think accessibility made it popular. Security and ease of use are usually opposing forces.

The article has some interesting discussion points. I don't understand the absolute fear of | bash installers. It's open source, read the script. That's the argument people make for `./configure; make; make install` programs. I think it's because it's new, or it's too easy.

But the article does have a point about trusted containers. But security isn't a download or a product anyway. Security isn't even guaranteed.

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