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Comment by andreashaerter | Hacker News Reader

Is there a reason for OCI images? It is just a binary? I have all used versions in ~/.local/bin/

  ~/.local/bin/hugo0.145.0
  ~/.local/bin/hugo0.148.0
  ~/.local/bin/hugo0.149.0
  ~/.local/bin/hugo0.150.0
  [...]

and a convenience symlink ~/.local/bin/hugo, pointing to my "production" version. I can easliy call whichever version I like with hugo<tab><tab>. What am I missing?

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It depends on your workflow I guess, but the advantages of having a Hugo version tagged in an image:

  - sharing it easily between computers/users (docker pull registry/image:tag)
  - having the appropriate binary version embedded in your code through a docker-compose in your repo
  - having custom aliases dedicated to hugo included (build/serve/run...)
  - using the exact same image in your CI/CD
  - not "polluting" your local computer with some more stuff

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