Docker and the OCI container ecosystem

Posted Jul 31, 2022 19:07 UTC (Sun) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Docker and the OCI container ecosystem by Cyberax
Parent article: Docker and the OCI container ecosystem

> Do they support layering?

Answering for Nix and its dockerTools: short answer yes (https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-pkgs-docker...), though half of the benefits of using "layers" in docker-land are already solved by Nix's build-caching system. So the advantages gained by "layers" are mostly around image size.