Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : Gamgee
From : acn
Date : Thu Apr 20 2023 16:22:00

Am 18.04.23 schrieb Gamgee@21:2/138 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo Gamgee,

[Docker]
G> Excellent explanation, thank you; and that actually makes good
G> sense..... if you're a developer.  Perhaps I should have added that to
G> my statement above about it not making sense (for a "normal" user).

I just have to add that although Docker (and other similar container  
systems) is good for developing software, it might not be the best  
idea for serving applications "in production".
At least from the standpoint of a systems administrator...

My reason is:
When using "normal" distributions (like Debian/Devuan), all  
dependencies are managed by the distributions' package management  
system and thus get updated in a central way.

But with containers, you have to rely on the base containers to be on  
the latest version (or: on the version without security problems) and  
(as sometimes also the container with the application also contains  
libraries) also the application container.

Regards,
Anna

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