[smackeyacky]

Who is going to bother? Classic worse-is-better software has taken over. I don’t hate it and having the big cloud providers embrace it makes my life a lot easier than rolling my own janky version.

There has to be hundreds of articles written by somebody who just discovered the underpinnings of docker and feels compelled to share their fresh insight on a very boring topic. We know you can write a bash script and just discovered chroot.

What they don’t understand is the work that went into setting up the whole ecosystem.

[jjayj]

Yeah. I had the beginning of some thought about C vs assembly, but that is already well discussed. This seems like another iteration of that topic to me. It has inspired me to try to replicate a Dockerfile using bash and these "lower level constructs" at some point.

The article may have been more convincing if it contained examples of Dockerfiles and an equivalent shell script. There were some links that I think went into this, but they looked pretty verbose so I didn't look into them tonight.