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		jiggawatts 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We clone a running VM in 2 seconds (2022) IMHO the real advancement was the implicit snapshot Docker takes after every line in a Dockerfile. Virtual Machine builder scripts like Packer could do this… but don’t. It’s a choice, not an inherent technology limitation.

dontlaugh 10 months ago [–]

I have the opposite opinion, the implicit overlay filesystem in Docker is an unnecessary and frustrating complication.

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