GreenEyedMonster Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 https://snapcraft.io/ What is a snap? A snap : is a squashFS filesystem containing your app code and a snap.yaml file containing specific metadata. It has a read-only file-system and, once installed, a writable area. is self-contained. It bundles most of the libraries and runtimes it needs and can be updated and reverted without affecting the rest of the system. is confined from the OS and other apps through security mechanisms, but can exchange content and functions with other snaps according to fine-grained policies controlled by the user and the OS defaults. https://youtu.be/DLxqdf89hRo Why would this be awesome for Unraid? If I understand correctly... hardware passthrough! Also https://snapcraft.io/store Quote Link to comment
GreenEyedMonster Posted September 10, 2018 Author Share Posted September 10, 2018 12 minutes ago, GreenEyedMonster said: https://snapcraft.io/ What is a snap? A snap : is a squashFS filesystem containing your app code and a snap.yaml file containing specific metadata. It has a read-only file-system and, once installed, a writable area. is self-contained. It bundles most of the libraries and runtimes it needs and can be updated and reverted without affecting the rest of the system. is confined from the OS and other apps through security mechanisms, but can exchange content and functions with other snaps according to fine-grained policies controlled by the user and the OS defaults. https://youtu.be/DLxqdf89hRo Why would this be awesome for Unraid? If I understand correctly... hardware passthrough! Also https://snapcraft.io/store If not Snap... there is also Flatpak and AppImage. Quote Link to comment
primeval_god Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 In what way does this differ from how we use docker? 1 Quote Link to comment
primeval_god Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 After a little more investigating I think i have answered my own question. Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage are more geared to Desktop installations than to the server environment. Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Yeah I don't see us replacing Docker with another app container system any time soon. Someone would have to REALLY sell us on the benefit of switching to justify it, and I don't see any benefit in SNAP or any of these other options. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 Docker has a huge repository of containerized applications, this is not easily replaceable. Not to mention all the customized apps for Unraid made available over the past three years. Quote Link to comment
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