alt Hacker NewsMaybe if you only look at it through the lens of building an app/service, but containers offer so much more than that. By standardizing their delivery through registries and management through runtimes, a lot of operational headaches just go away when using a container orchestrator. Not to mention better utilization of hardware since containers are more lightweight than VMs.
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the__alchemist • yesterday at 6:05 PM
Hah indeed that's my perspective. I'm used to being able to compile program, distribute executable, "just works", across win, Linux, MacOs. (With appropriate compile targets set)
> Not to mention better utilization of hardware
When compared to a VM, yes. But shipping a separate userspace for each small app is still bloat. You can reuse software packages and runtime environments across apps. From an I/O, storage, and memory utilization point of view, it feels baffling to me that containers are so popular.