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Comment by wmf

6 days ago

Should probably merge with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229348

I disagree, they are different, and that (containerization, not container here) is the more novel/interesting one imo. It'd be nice to focus the discussion more (though at present there are many confused comments there that think they're discussing the container tool).

  • Oh, like OP I didn’t see the difference. I believe the difference is:

    Container is a CLI tool

    Containerization is a framework

    • Yes, container is like `docker` CLI: 'I am a developer and I want to run a container'; containerization is for packaging OCI image container sidecars into Swift .apps - you could distribute your app with postgres 'built in' (but running as a container), user doesn't need to ensure it's installed and running separately or anything.