On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:19:30 -0300, Claudio Freire wrote:
Yes, but call the pattern "container minimal". Calling it "server" makes it seem like it's for a... you know... server. Which elicits thoughts of a physical machine in my language.
It doesn't in mine. Certainly, I have had occasion to create virtual servers where having YaST also was something that wasn't necessary because it was purpose-built for a specific purpose. When using virtualization orchestration technologies (for example), a really, really minimal image is essential to being able to (for example) move a VM from one host to another when doing load balancing of compute resources. There are many, many cases where, for compliance reasons, you don't want to have anything that's not essential to the operation of the software in question on the machine. It's like requiring the Oracle JDK for something when really, all you need is the JRE.
Certainly both use cases are very different when one needs a kernel and another doesn't. Right?
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