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Containers lower the bar since the developer doesn’t need to make their program work on every system - just the container’s system.
Price we pay for more programs. And they bring boons like read-only, rootless, limited capabilities, and constrained perf limits (esp if you use Podman with Quadlets).
And don’t feel trapped - the Dockerfile is a recipe to build that program. Probably want to do it in an LXC container since it’ll want to use /data for its data or something. But the LXC container can also be run as a user but the program thinks it’s root. Plenty of security abounds!
I think it’s worth the price and you’re not trapped. They’re trapped with you and your robust Quadlet files