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Is this the program that open source people use to install all the random depencies that their program needs to work? The one that people tell me to use when I complain about git bash pico sudo pytorch Install commands?
Or did another company copy their name?
I mean, they're one implementor of about 10 that use the same container standards. It sucks that they were first so their name is now synonymous with containers a la Kleenex, but the technology itself is standard, very open and ubiquitous, and a huge step forward in simplifying deployments and development lifecycles that would otherwise be too complex to reasonably handle.
To be fair, I used LXC before Docker, so I've always called them "containers." But I guess I'm old or something.
Not having to install dependencies is a benefit of containers and their images. That's a pretty big thing to miss. Maybe give it a closer look.
Nope. Docker doesn't do that. That's something else.
But it does in a lot of cases. At work, we use Docker images to bundle our dependencies for each microservice, and at home, I use Docker images for the same reason on my self-hosted repos. It's fantastic for running servers in a sandbox so you don't have to worry about what dependencies the host has.
But perhaps OP is talking about flatpaks instead.