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Devbox 0.1.2 released, now with ability to run devbox scripts inside your shells (github.com/jetpack-io)
2 points by ghuntley on Dec 9, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Devbox is great! Faster than Docker, with much less complexity, especially in the filesystem and network.

There's no free lunch, Devbox doesn't provide the same guarantees as Docker, but it's a great tradeoff for many app use cases.


> There's no free lunch, Devbox doesn't provide the same guarantees as Docker

It provides _better_ guarantees than Docker. A standard Dockerfile contains this line:

RUN doas apt-get ugprade # boo, reproducibility is now screwed.

vs DevBox/Nix - https://r13y.com/ - is truely reproducible and can generate accurate SBOMs from the build chain vs scanning internals of Docker images with some post build tooling.




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