workstation

I love this idea, and because docker feels so much lighter than vagrant, and doesn't require virtualbox to be installed and updated (like vagrant did on windows when I used it).…

@lifeisstillgood - in the spirit of mutual embarrassment... https://github.com/ramses0/docker-devenv https://github.com/ramses0/docker-devenv/blob/master/Dockerfile I found it…

I see some minor grammatical issues with the doc. "dependencies" is spelled wrong, and the final sentence of the "Docker Immutable Workstation" section seems incomplete. Also…

You can even get it with straight up Docker, as long as both the host and container are running a new enough kernel+docker. You can even run unprivileged containers:…

In my experience, I was not able to run systemctl restart some.service in a docker container. This wasn't an issue in a LXC container.

Did you consider alternate approaches like using Ansible to give you more native system options as well, or was the goal here truly to have something 100% cross platform on…

This is pretty much exactly my project Darch is/does, except that it is truly completely native. https://godarch.com/ Here are my recipes:…

I tried Fedora Silverblue [0] with the release of Fedora 29. It uses OSTree to manage state, and only allows mutability inside of the home directory and /var. Overall I was very…

Might be interesting to pair this with something like Fedora Silverblue (read-only /usr managed using rpm-ostree) and fedora-toolbox. http://silverblue.fedoraproject.org…

This is approaching the idea of Qubes OS, which is a good direction IMO and something I've been waiting for stability to try. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS…

NixOS may also be something to look at. It's doing things a bit differently compared to Qubes, but seems to have similar kinds of goals. I've not used it before but the idea…

Was NixOS / Nix considered? Feels like a lot of overlap in the motivations.