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Kubernetes is the worst thing that ever happened to docker

Docker is the worst thing to ever happen to LXC

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in reply to silverwizard

still mad at kubernetes for further tuning the word "cybernetics," and for popularizing the incredibly cursed "k8s" type abbreviation system
in reply to Alex P. 👹

The Letter Number Letter abbreviation will never be forgiven for creating a11y
in reply to silverwizard

lxc is the worst thing that happened to plan9 process namespaces.
in reply to dsp

I thought Solaris Zones were first?

And a fat layer on top of chroot is kinda valuable

in reply to silverwizard

i'm far from an expert on this but wikipedia claims solaris containers/zones were circa 2005. i also kinda remember hearing about them at the time. rfork and plan9 namespaces predated me by far and according to this (doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_editi…) they were published around 1993. :). of course the scope of isolation that they offer is different. and you can argue that solaris was a "production system". Plan9 just seems to have tried to address the problem in its design.
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in reply to dsp

I don't have the lack of headache required to separate these Plan9 namespaces from a good ol' 1979 chroot and then the later intro of zones
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard oh gosh I understand this and now even a significant part of the responses (but not all!) 😶😶😶
in reply to Becky

@Becky @silverwizard I understand even less, which is a compliment to Sean's teaching abilities.
in reply to Becky

@firefly_lightning I dunno what LXC is so I'm gonna be here looking impressed :flan_ooh:
in reply to pamela

LXC is just the linux container thing - it's a thing docker wraps

Basically LXC is jails to docker's iocage if you know what that is (you being a BSD person instead of a Linux person I assume the different knowledge base is there, but I dunno)

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in reply to silverwizard

I've had a jails lesson... but container-y things are not anything I get to play with :flan_laugh: ​ duckduck set me right. Sounds like you two have been having fun, that's cool stuff to learn about!
in reply to silverwizard

@pamela@silverwizard @pamela I thought lxc was purely userspace stuff? don't it and nspawn and docker and etc directly use the various kernel features under the hood?
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard @pamela :flan_butterfly: @Neko McCatface v2023 :verified::makemeneko: I've only just kind of decided I want to learn more but I keep asking questions like "how does wifi work" and then we end up talking for like 3hrs.... and I keep doing that... it has been fun tho, and hopefully I'll actually know some stuff soon. I'm appreciative I get this chance to learn...
in reply to Becky

@firefly_lightning @roboneko@bae.st @silverwizard that's what Kurt and I did! He's especially great at walking through how stuff developed over time. Such an excellent way to learn, hearing how stuff works combined with the bits that the other person finds interesting and wants to share
in reply to pamela

@pamela :flan_butterfly: @silverwizard oh, that's awesome! In your posts you seem to know a lot too, and it's cool to see someone else who has done the same thing as we're starting to do xD