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Container Hacks and Fun Images

Jessie Frazelle · 39.6K views · 2018-01-15 · 38:50

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Overview

Jessie Frazelle's DockerCon SF 2015 talk on running Docker containers for desktop applications, with fun container hacks and images. It shows how far containers can be pushed beyond servers.

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HN points to it as an illuminating look at what containers really are and as a video companion to running desktop apps in Docker.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2019–2022

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Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityOperating systems & kernels
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karlding · 2020-12 · Recommendation

The blog post links to Jessie Frazelle's GitHub repo [0]. Jessie also has a blog post about this [1] from back in 2015. If you prefer video format, Jessie also has a talk at DockerCon SF 2015 [2]. [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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hardwaresofton · 2019-05 · Recommendation

This is precisely why I said the fact that someone would gloss over this is a red flag. The point is super critical . VMs are literally so hard to do correctly and in a performant fashion that parts of CPU instruction sets[0], and kernel subsystems (KVM[1]) were created to make them easier to run. Containers, in contrast are literally a few flags and a bunch of in-kernel antics. A few people, notably Liz Rice and Jessie Frazelle have given talks on how to make containers from scratch that are very illuminating for those that are interested: [LINK] [VIDEO] [0]: [LINK] [1]: [LINK]

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ignoramous · 2022-07 · Joke / meme

Talking about marketing to devs, in the immortal words of Jess Fraz, " I really like nothing on my host... I am not going to freakin' install that ." (: [VIDEO]

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