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>But you're still talking about having an entire OS+dependencies just to run an application
that's not true, a container need only contain the dependencies for the application, no kernel or other unnecessary software
in practice you do typically have a package manager as well, since it makes installing software in a container easy, though there's nothing stopping you pointing a package manager to a folder to use as a container without putting it in the container as well
a package manager alone doesn't take up much space, especially ones like alpine's apk
an alpine rootfs suitable for a container is 8MiB