2017-10-24 21:30:11
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Telling if a container has to be restarted
We just completed a little tool called trli-cmp. Containers are assembled using files
borrowed from a reference server or container. Once in a while, we apply updates to
the reference. Then using trli-cmp, we can tell precisely which container is impacted. The tool
compares all the binaries and libraries in the container against the one in the
reference. Any mismatch is printed.

So maintenance-wise, the LXC0 project is a winner. We update a single reference server and trli-cmp
tells precisely which LXC0 containers have to be updated, and why.

Testing for containers updates in production takes 1/5 of a second. LXC0 containers are so thin...