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[Discuss] node.js and npm on Debian?
- Subject: [Discuss] node.js and npm on Debian?
- From: richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:04:26 -0800
- In-reply-to: <mailman.2314.1518560886.11171.discuss@blu.org>
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Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> observed: > ... it feels like we are doing something > fundamentally wrong if a sensible way to write "Hello, World!" (or > "Hello, I'm a GUI widget!") could possibly be: "Fire up a Linux > VM.". (Or a Docker container...) > ...(Slack) is over 80MB. (Tunein Radio) that has an install of 65MB. The Alpine:3.7 container image is 2 megabytes. Most of the readily-launchable images that I've set up using it are in the 8-25 megabyte range. Yes, bigger than a local compiled binary. But they start up within a second or two, so by comparison with virtualization or Amazon EC2, containerization wins big-time against firing up something that takes 60 to 200 seconds. Trying to support an organization of dozens or hundreds of developers' laptops, and hundreds or thousands of server deployments, would be incredibly difficult with last decade's tools like VMware or puppet (well, I know puppet's got a loyal following, but as for me I'm done with it). Supporting my home LAN with just a handful of machines became a lot easier when I ditched all the config-management tools, created a directory-of-directories of my various /etc configs, and mapped my containers to those /etc settings files. I just edit a setting with trusty old emacs or vi, commit to my local git, and re-start the container service. Have been doing something kinda like this since before docker (circa 2012 there was just LXC; Ubuntu 12.04 had the first well-package containerization tools set), but today there's a big developer community around the concept of docker containers and major backing by such open-source sponsors as Netflix and Red Hat. Reducing bloat (while laudable) shouldn't be the primary goal; I try to go for simplifying and accelerating workflow. -rich
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