Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget
Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget
In this article, the author explores the concept of containers and how they are essentially chrooted processes. They walk through the process of bu...
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So they say I can run a dozen of different web applications on the same machine all on the same port internally and different port externally and have a reverse proxy forwarding the traffic to the correct port based on the hostname it was called with by simply using a bunch of chrooted environments?
Without the chroot, that's how shared webhosting works but it can be hundreds or thousands of sites, depending on resource usage and server capacity.
I know how shared webhosting works. This is why I wonder why the author thinks containers and chroots are the same thing.
Oh that makes more sense. I probably took you too literally.
Not that it's really relevant for the discussion, but yes. You can do that, with or without chroot.
That's obviously not the point, but we're already comparing oranges and apples with chroot and containers.