I just finished an amazing call.

[rhialto@oldbytes.space]

@release_candidate @mvilain @stefano
Sure, cgroups and namespaces are implementation details on Linux. But probably(*) the specification of a container doesn't require that those specific technologies are used. Docker/podman on a macintosh runs in a VM, and if I recall correctly, docker on NetBSD works similarly.

(*) I didn't look it up

[joel@gts.tumfatig.net]

@stefano never play chess with a pigeon!

[markotway@mastodonapp.uk]

@mvilain
See also, the numerous conversations I've had with people who claim a NAS is not a server.
@stefano

[jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@Stefano Marinelli well, what else is there to say ? :-)

[linker3000@mastodon.social]

Ha. They're thinking of Podman, which doesn't need a kernel because it's daemonless...

..or something like that.

🤔😁

[ozzelot@snac.sklenicekrtku.cz]

@release_candidate@bsd.cafe
i would at least find a way to rant about plan9's per process namespaces if randomly asked about containers. and if i counted on being asked about them intentionally, i'd be sleeplessly diving into anything i could get my hands on.

(my role is nothing to do with sysadmin stuff, i'm just a helpdesk person who messes around with snac & stuff in their home in simple noncontainerized ways of yore; i dont know what a microservice is and am too afraid to ask)

"not a vm but like a vm" is... um... a small part of me would want to tell them the janitor interviews are one floor below.
@mvilain@sfba.social @stefano@bsd.cafe

[ska@social.treehouse.systems]

@stefano You are wise in ways I can never be.

[mikestok@mstdn.ca]

@paul_ipv6 @maysonic @mvilain @stefano or find another job. Like many other things that are meant to make my life easier, it seems to me that docker lures me onto thin ice from time to time. And I hope I’m still too young to die.

[edelruth@mastodon.online]

@stefano

Hey, plainly he read a thing, or did his own research, or, like that.

[chessert@mastodon.online]

@stefano

You certainly dodged a bullet there: well done! 🙂

“Please go be someone else’s headache.”

[aadmaa2@mathstodon.xyz]

@stefano awesome. This is a big security win. I can quit fiddling with gvisor.

[earthorguk@mastodon.energy]

@stefano Ah well, in the 80s as an ignorant teen I asked the creator of B to tell me why I should by a C compiler. He was fairly polite about it...

[pertho@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano Wow this person must have drunk ALL of the docker Kool-Aid.

[jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano a bullet you dodged. possibly two of them. but in typical stefano form, a professional