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by raesene9 3057 days ago
I'd suggest that if containers end up looking like "the entire OS" then that misses a lot of the benefit of containers.

A container image should be "the bare minimum that allows the application to run".

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Yes, I do agree with that.

If they are minimalistic and hold the app then this makes sense and then containers are essentially an unified packaging format that is accepted on "serverless" public cloud. This provides a value because you can then easily run your application on multiple providers where it is cheaper at given time.

I'm thinking that in the future your IDE could just compile your project into a single file that you then upload it anywhere and just run.

But the docker was promoted as something different with the union fs, nating etc. That works fine for development but it's a bit problematic operationalizing it.