docker brought back the frenzy of delivering software in a tarball just like slackware in the past. Long live patrick volkerdig and tar -zxvf ... -C / !
Even though Docker's disk and transport format are technically tar, I think that this is still a wrong statement.
tarballs are ubiquitous already. Docker actively hides that it uses tarballs (it abstracts away all interactions with them, to the point that it really is an implementation detail excluding docker export/import).
tarballs are ubiquitous already. Docker actively hides that it uses tarballs (it abstracts away all interactions with them, to the point that it really is an implementation detail excluding docker export/import).