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Alex Dzyoba
Personal blog · alex.dzyoba.com/blogsystemsprogramming
Alex Dzyoba writes There is no magic here, a personal blog at alex.dzyoba.com about systems and programming. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Packer and Ansible – Dockerfile = AwesomeContainer”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alex Dzyoba's posts on building containers with Packer and Ansible as an alternative to Dockerfiles, and on whether hardware interrupt service routines count as functions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Packer and Ansible – Dockerfile = AwesomeContainer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-31
What Hacker News says?
I like the other alternative Packer + ansible instead of Dockerfiles as explained here https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/packer-for-docker/
Comment linking /blog/packer-for-docker/
on “Buildpacks vs. Dockerfiles”Submitted How to point GDB to your sources as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe ansible-in-containers thing is very much an unsolved problem. Basically right now you have three choices: - install ansible in-band and run it against localhost (sucks because your playbook is in a final image layer, you might not want Python in the container) - use packer with ansible as your provisioner and a docker container export, see: https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/packer-for-docker/ - copy a previous stage'…
Comment linking /blog/packer-for-docker/
on “BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything”Submitted Nice Nginx Features for Operators as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor me, a x86 interrupt service routine that services a hardware interrupt[1] doesn't strike me as something I'd consider a function. It shouldn't return a value, and it typically has side effects. So why is it a function? I mean trivially you could say it's a function from (entire machine state) to (entire machine state), but typically we ignore the trivial solution because it's not interesting. [1]: https://alex.d…
Comment linking /blog/os-interrupts/
on “Are Arrays Functions?”Submitted Nice Nginx Features for Developers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write your own diff for fun as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multiboot kernel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nginx mirroring for API regression testing (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Packer and Ansible – Dockerfile = AwesomeContainer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I revamped my Vim setup as a story · 1 points
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