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> Regarding using a container for distributing static site generators, does anyone really do that?

Is Sphinx a good enough example? <https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/installation.html...>

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> Could you elaborate on how this relates to the parent comment's mention of using less space when running many containers?

Could you elaborate on how does "running many containers" relates to the topic of distributing and running *a single tool* (that was the context of the article)?



> Could you elaborate on how does "running many containers" relates to the topic of distributing and running a single tool (that was the context of the article)?

YOU may be distributing just a single tool but your users most likely use the computer for more than one tool. If they use many tools under docker, it is likely that many of those tools share the same underlying layers.




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