Despite the plethora of Docker articles here on HN, I haven't paid much attention to containers. Reading this article, I get the impression that they occupy a niche somewhere between a chroot jail and a VM.

The question is, how to deploy an application in this kind of environment? Maybe I build a minimal container and find that a DBMS works fine until it does something like dlopen("/usr/lib/libxml2.so"). Oops, rebuild the container with another library and try again.

After fixing one of the broken links in the blog post, I found this article, which describes an Oracle container:

http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2014/10/29/containerizing-databas...