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Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video]


- Track: Containers - Room: UD2.218A - Day: Saturday - Start: 13:10 - End: 13:40 - Video only: ud2218a - Chat: Join the conversation! Fuchsia is a new (non-Linux) operating system from Google, and one of the key pieces of Fuchsia's design is the component framework. Components on Fuchsia have many similarities with some of the container solutions on Linux (such as Docker): they both fetch content addressed blobs from the network, assemble those blobs into an isolated filesystem structure that holds all the dependencies necessary to run some piece of software, and launch namespaced processes with that created directory as its root.

Components on Fuchsia have many similarities with some of the container solutions on Linux (such as Docker): they both fetch content addressed blobs from the network, assemble those blobs into an isolated filesystem structure that holds all the dependencies necessary to run some piece of software, and launch namespaced processes with that created directory as its root. Both have different use cases and requirements, which leads to different strengths between the systems. This talk will largely be focusing on where and why these two similar technologies diverge.

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