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Comment by nsonha

21 hours ago

installing new tools inside container requires you to update the Dockerfile and rebuild, here it seems you can simply run the installation command and create a checkpoint

You can do this with Docker too without Dockerfile or rebuilding. You can treat the container as mutable and just start/stop it, doing changes manually, and make snapshots with docker commit.

You'll forfeit the benefits of reproducible scripted environment of course but Docker does let you do it.