[eropple]

> Linux containers were already a thing, and don't need an entire copy of an OS ported around with them.

Neither do Docker containers. You can build off scratch and put the literal bare minimum you need in it. I've done it a few different times. It's rarely done because the time and effort almost never makes up for the complexity and cost, but if your old-school sysadmins are scoffing it's on them.

[vacri]

Response to exactly that idea from one of these guys: "Why do you need docker to just build an executable?"

[Torgo]

Deterministic builds. Isolating shitty build scripts from my system.

[eropple]

I don't. But it helps make a straightforward deployable of highly coupled libraries and tools in a way that's more comprehensible to other people.

But I'll get off your lawn now.

[vacri]

Ain't my lawn; I consider myself a mid-range sysadmin. I stepped out of support and into sysadmin land about 4 years ago. But I know some 'from-the-birth-of-linux' guys, who live and breathe this stuff in a way I never will. When I get home from staring at terminals, I want to watch movies and play video games, not swear at something on a breadboard :)