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Can we please stop sounding the trumpet of "progress"? Containers have been around for nearly a couple of decades (possibly more if you extend the definition), since IBM i had LPARs.

There's nothing fast-moving or technologically novel about, especially, Linux containers.



If I remember correctly from my AIX days (a while back, admittedly), LPARs are more like VMs than containers. Though you are still correct... virtualization goes back decades!


Yeah, but the layered images and copy on write nature of Docker has not and IMHO, that is what is novel about this new wave of containers.


Union mounts? Those are at least 25 years old.


Just add registry server, that's where the magic is.




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