I don’t even know if the term Workspace Container is something I’ve coined or what. I’ve never heard anyone else use this term. I do hope it gets traction so we can at least explore the possibility.
I continue to get shit about how the size of my rwxrob/workspace
container and I’m trying to find a way to elevator pitch why this makes
sense for a developer and researcher. So far the best way to explain it
is that workspace containers are actually just ultra-light weight,
terminal-only Linux distros.
Some really have a problem with this. But the fact is, it’s a tool that helps me do things that no virtual machine or cloud/network dependent alternative can provide. Development teams have already realized this value and created their own “developer containers” that have all their tooling the way their team requires. This is just an extension of that by making the thing something you actually work from (with all the important persistent stuff mounted, obviously).