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abraae on March 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned from cont...

I always admire papers that make the virtual things we wrangle with all day seem even more physical.

This achieves that with its (afaik) novel usage of "hermetic":

  The key to making this abstraction work is having a hermetic container image.

Poetry.

atombender on March 3, 2016 [–]

Not a novel usage at all. It's frequently used to mean "insulated" or "protected from the outside". E.g.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/opinion/roger-cohen-iran-u...

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/word-of-the-day...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/t-magazine/art/lucy-jorge-...

(Googling lowercase "hermetic" is nearly impossible since the uppercase meaning is much more prevalent.)

Of course, talking about "hermetic containers" makes it a sort of pun.

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