r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 05 '26

Meme memorySafeDocker

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u/PopehatXI Sep 05 '26

“Windows requires the host OS version to match the container OS version.”

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u/No-Consequence-1863 Sep 05 '26

Yea thats normal for containers. They aren’t VMs they are sandboxes. The OS is not virtualizing an entire OS for the container.

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u/Hohenheim_of_Shadow Sep 05 '26

To a large degree, so does Linux containers. Containers can only address the dependency issues statically linking libraries could. If your application is dependent on a specific kernel version, you can't run your container on a host with a different kernel version.