macondo VS dockerfiles

This reminded me of a proof of concept thing that facilitates this kind of work.

https://github.com/casidiablo/macondo

I don't even know what it is I built, but it has been useful in some contexts.

It basically allows you to easily wrap and distribute scripts (or more complex apps) that have specific dependencies that might not always be installed in the host. It does so by wrapping the script in a docker image.

It also automates the annoying part of docker: mounting local paths for apps that need to interact with the host's file system.

I need to write a blog post on this if anything to gather feedback. I'm still not 100% sold on the idea and there are some edge cases. Still, a fun experiment.

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk... is the one I remember, a bit old but still useful to see how she does it.

Seems super painful and indirected for a nebulous gain to me, but find your joy however you want I guess

Jess does some awesome stuff and this is literally what you asked for. hollywood

mildly relevant https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desktop/

Some of my day-to-day software.

After knowing that saved Chrome passwords and cookies in Linux are not protected against malicious dependencies in our development environment or other apps in our system, I decided to run my core apps in Docker containers, where their data is not accessible without sudo, and a personal understanding of where stuff is being saved.

These docker containers are also an improved version of https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles/

Contrary to the project above, docker-workspaces runs Chrome in a sandbox, encrypts keys with the help of an also dockerized gnome-keychain, and works in tandem with pulseaudio, so you can use wired headphones (i still need to add some dependencies for it to work with bluetooth headphones).

Thank you. As someone who uses containers a lot (even to run local programs, shout out to https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...) this makes some sense to me.

I'm a little way into the Nix Pills document (https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/why-you-should-give-it-a-...) which seems to start the explanation from a place where I can understand.