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You do realize there are plenty of bare metal infrastructure deployments out in the world, yeah? Being in a container solves no problems in this scenario at all.
Not a sysadmin but just an hobbyist: is it ok to have such a large install bare metal and not containerized?
For example the issue of MySQL 5 being unavailable would be a non-issue with a container
Wha?
You do realize there are plenty of bare metal infrastructure deployments out in the world, yeah? Being in a container solves no problems in this scenario at all.
Don’t quote me, but as far as I know containers can’t fix the issue if the host kernel is too old.