On Monday, October 13, 2014 1:24:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Hearing a bit about docker nowadays. > > Here's why its supposedly better than a VM: > > https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/ > > Downsides?? No idea!
> One obvious downside is that it doesn't allow guests to modify the OS > at all. A VM gives you an entire OS, so you can use and manipulate > anything. If you don't *need* all that flexibility, then a VM is > paying an unnecessary cost, ergo Docker will have no downside. Was talking of more pragmatic downsides eg "Does it really work?" :-) [Docker is still quite new] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
