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sqrt17 on March 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Instantbox: Spins up temporary Linux systems with ...

What's the difference between a "docker run ubuntu:latest" and this?

jchw on March 24, 2019 [–]

It seems to be like that, but as a service. It looks like it's running over here: http://lxc.im

kristianp on March 25, 2019 | [–]

It's nice to be able to start up an ephemeral instance so quickly, and to be able to install packages too. Wouldn't it be fairly open to abuse though? You could make any kind of requests you like from these.

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