On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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]
Ah, I can't help you there. I've never used Docker. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
