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Stop Handing CI Jobs Root on Your Box

Stop Handing CI Jobs Root on Your Box

Self-hosted GitHub Actions, Forgejo, and GitLab runners can hand a forked pull request root on your box. Here is the isolation ladder that actually stops it.

20 Unix Users, 20 Rootless Dockers

20 Unix Users, 20 Rootless Dockers

One host, 20 Unix users, 20 rootless Docker daemons. The isolation model that beats a single shared daemon, plus the trade-offs nobody tells you about.

Devcontainers Without VS Code Lock-In

Devcontainers Without VS Code Lock-In

Devcontainers work without VS Code. DevPod gives you the same devcontainer.json from neovim, tmux, or any editor, and here is when it is overkill.

TrueNAS Apps vs Docker on TrueNAS Scale

TrueNAS Apps vs Docker on TrueNAS Scale

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TrueNAS Scale ditched Kubernetes for native Docker. Apps catalog vs raw Compose, when each wins, dataset snapshots, and why custom apps took so long.

Podman Compose for Docker-Free Workflows

Podman Compose for Docker-Free Workflows

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Drop Docker's daemon entirely. Podman rootless containers with podman-compose, drop-in compatibility, daemonless orchestration, and where it bites you.

LXC vs Docker: Lightweight Containers

LXC vs Docker: Lightweight Containers

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LXC and Docker both containerize workloads, but one runs mini-VMs with init processes while the other handles single-process apps. Here's when each wins.

Incus: LXD's Community Fork, Two Years In

Incus: LXD's Community Fork, Two Years In

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Two years after Canonical's LXD CLA grab, Incus is shipping in Debian/Fedora/NixOS. Here's what changed, what works, and when to use it.

Your Agent Doesn't Need a Shell

Your Agent Doesn't Need a Shell

Coding agents get unrestricted shell access by default because it's easy, not because they need it. Here's the short list of what actually breaks without one.

Where Should Your Coding Agent Run?

Where Should Your Coding Agent Run?

Claude Code and other AI coding agents need somewhere to run. Compare laptop, Docker, throwaway VMs, and Cloudflare Workers on blast radius, cost, and setup.

Go on Scratch: Docker With No OS at All

Go on Scratch: Docker With No OS at All

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A Go binary on FROM scratch gives you a 10 MB image with no shell, no libc, no /tmp. Everything that breaks on an empty filesystem, and how to fix each one.