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drupol committed Jul 14, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -118,9 +118,10 @@ to Docker, users have been introduced to the concept of containerization,
immutability, and to some extent, reproducibility.

While discussing Docker with people, I noticed a common misconception about
reproducibility that is worth noting. To illustrate this, let's consider a
project shipping builds of their open-source software through Docker images. At
each release, they publish a new version of their image. These Docker images are
reproducibility that is worth noting, similar to @info-box-proprietary-software.
To illustrate this, let's consider a project shipping builds of their
open-source software through Docker images hosted on Docker Hub. At each
release, they publish a new version of their image. These Docker images are
immutable, and users can use and reuse them at will. However, it is simply
impossible to reproduce those images themselves from the sources. While this
illustrates the Docker leitmotif #emph["build once, use everywhere"], it does
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