I read some articles about using a virtual environment in Docker. Their argument are that the purpose of virtualization in Docker is to introduce isolation and limit conflicts with system packages etc.

However, aren’t Docker and Python-based images (e.g., python:*) already doing the same thing?

Can someone eli5 this whole thing?

  • uthredii@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Sure, but in the case where you upgrade python and it affects python packages it would affect global packages and a venv in the same way.

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      2 months ago

      Sure If that happens. But it may also not. Which is actually usually the case. Sure, it’s not 100% safe, but it is safer.