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by rglover 1341 days ago
> As an industry, we're so bad at isolation that we have to put a computer (container) inside a computer (VM) inside a computer (hardware) just to achieve any sort of sane guarantees.

We don't. But shortsighted design, rushing, and herd mentality around "hyped" tech make it a virtual certainty more like this will exist, just in different shapes and sizes.

You can run most stuff on a baremetal box or VM w/ direct install of dependencies. All of this container stuff, sorry to say, is a grift save for some extreme multi-tenant use cases.