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fully get the grumpy old man mode, but also

> They feel naked without docker. 'But mah complexity!' they yell when they see plain old binary nowadays. Grr.

That's because they kind of are naked -- containers bring namespace and cgroup based isolation.

If they weren't doing that, then they'd be juggling systemd slices...

If they weren't doing that they'd be setting up per-app users and fussing with ulimit...

And if they weren't doing that, they really would be naked.

I'm very much (as you might be able to tell) pro-containers -- they're a great tool, and they actually do kind of deserve to go most places.

Containers shouldn’t be absolutely everywhere, but they should be the default these days as a layer between the OS and a possibly clueless app developer.



Im pro cgroup isolation but I hate docker. For the first 5 years I used it it definitely caused me more problems than it solved and its design is still bad.

It's fortunate podman exists now coz I was starting to sound like a crackpot.




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