discourse is rapidly slipping towards my Things I Will Not Work With pile.
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I have been told it's manageable if you relegate it to a container and try not to touch. It's bad enough as a user, I dread to think what it's like for a sysop.
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A container is the only recommended and supported way of deploying it, but I refuse.
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Is this a religious objection to containers in general, or just to the common container technologies such as Docker? The latter I can understand, the former not-so-much.
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I get the idea of containers for implementing microservices. A entire forum system isn't a microservice. Also docker: ewww.
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Replying to @mart_brooks
In the brave new world of letting non-distribution-maintainers look after software distributions (npm, crates.io, pypi, etc) containers seem like one of the only safe ways to isolate them from everything else. I don't even want my base OS contaminated.

Feb 20, 2018 Β· 11:28 AM UTC
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