Can toolbox be intended for production use?

Hello everybody. I need to start several projects with different dependencies and I thought about toolbox.I configured the different toolboxes with the dependencies I need and thought about starting the individual projects via toolbox run.

This is working but I would like to understand two things:

  • is toolbox designed for this use or just development and debugging?
  • commands executed via run start a new instance of the same toolbox or in the same?

This is a new topic to me. I have chosen this system out of urgency and I am considering whether to migrate to a full docker system once a stable point is reached.

Thanks for any replies and excuse my ignorance in advance.

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Well. It depens on what you mean by production.
AFAIK, toolbox is intended to manage your pet containers. If your goal is to run services, and maybe start them at boot, I would instead explore podman. At the end of the day toolbox uses podman under the hood.