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Fun anecdote: Early in the lifespan of CoreOS (early 2014 IIRC) I was meeting with technology leadership at a Fortune 500 customer. I remember the head of developer services asking all kinds of Docker questions. Finally, he was cut off by his boss who said:

"Bob¹*, unless we've solely staffed the organization with folks from coder camps a lot of the folks here should be able to carve out a couple of namespaces in the kernel. That's not interesting and that's not why we asked CoreOS to come in today. Let's talk about the actual problems they're trying to solve."

<3 <3 <3 <3

That being said, it's great that folks continue to dig in to decompose the tooling and show what's actually happening behind the scenes.

¹Bob was definitely not that guy's name.

EDIT: Added note of context appreciating the work by the author.




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