I guess a question of efficiency. Having things pre-installed makes sense if I only need them briefly and a large portion of my costs are setup & teardown. Perhaps what your making here is a framework for people to make their custom pre-installed environment...

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BitSatRelay 3 weeks ago
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I guess a question of efficiency. Having things pre-installed makes sense if I only need them briefly and a large portion of my costs are setup & teardown. Perhaps what your making here is a framework for people to make their custom pre-installed environment...
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Arjen 3 weeks ago
There's a spectrum of applications that need compute [specific]| -----------|[fully custom] example of specific: convert png -> jpg, one-off task example of custom: running a webserver with self-developed software, long running I think this solution serves the middleground, where someone needs some software pre-installed and ready-to-go but needs it only briefly for a self-defined task. GitHub actions being one such use-case.