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For a more full fledged use case FRRouting may be the way to go. We are using Quagga here mainly to maintain internal routes with iBGP and route reflectors. This is a fairly simple…

We have been working on a simplified container build system which does away with layers altogether. [1] The use of layers at the build stage adds a lot of needless complexity with …

We need to spin up a lot of VMs of various Linux distributions for testing Flockport and we found the existing tooling too heavy and involved. In the end we rolled our own solution…

What is wrong with Docker? This does not address any technical or other shortcoming and only seeks to replace one set of over engineered tools with another with the exact same prob…

This is where containers can help. Ubuntu ships with LXC and its relatively simple to download an Alpine Linux container and then install Nginx and you are set. Alternatively Flock…

@vikrant Glad to hear that! Networking in Linux is incredibly feature rich and the LXC team have done a great job on container networking.

Layers are integral in Docker, layers were pushed as enabling reuse, composibility, 'immutability', every 'run' statement is a layer. They are not an implementation detail. Managin…

Docker was based on LXC and there are some important differences that should be more well known. The main difference is LXC boots an init in the namespace as the first process so y…

Layers are interesting but the benefits of layers are vastly overstated, you can achieve the same without layers and the overhead and complexity in image management. Piling layers …