[HN Gopher] Witchery: tools for building distroless images with ...
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       Witchery: tools for building distroless images with alpine
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-09-09 13:39 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | mif wrote:
       | From the title, I thought it's about mountain photography. Oh
       | boy, those title words sometimes become too unrecognizable.
        
       | jkbbwr wrote:
       | Im surprised we haven't bit the bullet and just jumped to
       | unikernels and OS as a library yet. It removes a whole layer we
       | just don't need.
        
         | jdmoreira wrote:
         | agree. I don't understand why we are not there yet. I'm mostly
         | an app developer but sometimes I ask a backender "are we
         | unikernel yet?" And they just look at me like I'm speaking
         | alien to them.
        
           | lonjil wrote:
           | Because then you'd need to make literally everything you use
           | support the unikernel. Containers, and VMs running Linux, are
           | nice because everything already works on Linux. Also, I don't
           | see what you would actually gain. Like what layer is actually
           | being removed here?
        
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