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  • bubblewrap

    Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

  • You could get something like this using a Bubblewrap script. I have one which marks everything but the current directory read only and drops me into a shell in that container.

    So a similar idea would be to overlay mount your system for that container so you can edit, and then on exit the changes vanish. Might try this actually :)

    https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

  • bocker

    Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash

  • > there was this bash-based Docker reimplementation

    https://github.com/p8952/bocker? Last commit was 7 years ago, and even then this was more of an experiment / PoC - I really don't think this was ever meant as a viable replacement. (IMHO Bash is a horrible language as well.)

    I agree with your sentiment on container/cloud tooling. It doesn't need to be this complicated, the needs of the 1% are dictating the experience for the 99%. However Docker (the basic CLI interface) and Dockerfile (the format) did a lot to bring containers to the mainstream, and you can still get quite a lot out of it by just sticking to the basics. For self-hosting simple services, or even just deploying your application, on plain old VPS/box-under-the-desk, it's still just plain brilliant; at least compared to loading files into a shotgun and aiming in the general direction of /opt, /usr/local, /home/app, /etc.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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