You would be surprised by how many infrastructures have software running without...

ChocolateGod · 2024-10-09T21:10:39 1728508239

> why would I use containers for base services?

This is a supported feature of podman which can generate systemd units to make system services.

But, as for advantages (system has some of them too), sandboxing, resource constraints, ease of distribution, not being broken by system updates (glibc update on RHEL broke some Go binaries iirc).

My rule of thumb is that only system software (e.g. DE, firewall, drivers, etc) belong on the base system, everything else is going in a container. This is very easy to do now on modern Linux distros.

eikenberry · 2024-10-09T22:18:22 1728512302

trepanne · 2024-10-10T05:04:34 1728536674

Presumably “desktop environment” e.g. KDE plasma or Gnome. You don’t really want to be containerising those.

ChocolateGod · 2024-10-10T07:02:51 1728543771

Yeh. I know people have run DE/Compositors in containers, but it doesn't really have any benefits outside of testing.

MrDarcy · 2024-10-09T20:13:06 1728504786

I think they meant use a container to build caddy with xcaddy.

It is essentially a one liner to cross compile caddy for all your use cases as long as you have access to a container runtime to build it.