Recently I was looking to install an application on Linux with a large number of dependencies: TeXstudio and it’s TeXLive libraries. I wasn’t sure I wanted the packages sitting around on my computer long term, and I didn’t feel like micro-managing the dependencies with a minimal install. I thought this would be the perfect chance to experiment with Linux containers. There are multiple implementations of containerization right now on Linux, ranging from the extremely customizable, and more general – LXC – to the more specific application deployment technology – Docker. Since I wasn’t going to be deploying software images, I didn’t think using Docker made any sense. My use also didn’t involve something that needed to be extremely customizable, and since I wanted a relatively quick setup, I chose to go with an alternative: systemd-nspawn.
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