[ale] Anyone using Docker?

[JD]

I think the goal is 100% cross-platform, run anywhere, containers. If you have a
docker "container" - deploying it to any platform (OS) supported with Docker
libraries should be trivial.

Sounds like LXC, but cross-platform and standardized.

Marketing:
"IT can ship faster and run the same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center
VMs, and any cloud."

I'd love it if libvirt supported it and virt-manager would allow container creation.

Regardless - sounds like something worth knowing for normal web-app workloads.
Definitely worth learning more, especially if you play in the virtualization arena.

On 06/12/2014 11:49 AM, Scott Plante wrote:
> 
> I really only learned about it yesterday, but there's more news today: 
> http://www.zdnet.com/docker-libcontainer-unifies-linux-container-powers-7000030397/#ftag=RSS510d04f?alertspromo= 
> ---
> Docker libcontainer unifies Linux container powers 
> 
> At DockerCon in San Francisco, Docker CTO and co-founder Solomon Hykes announced that the company would work as full partners with its former container technology rivals on Docker's key open-source component libcontainer.
> 
> What makes this important, even vital, news to the larger world of system administrators, datacenter managers, and cloud architects, is that Google, Red Hat, and Parallels are now helping build the program. Indeed, they will work with Docker as core maintainers of the code. Canonical's Ubuntu container engineers will also be working on it.
> 
> In other words, libcontainer is well on its way to becoming the default standard for Linux-based containers. Indeed, if rumors are true that Microsoft is working on bringing Docker-based containers to its Azure cloud.
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Michael B. Trausch" <mbt at naunetcorp.com> 
> To: ale at ale.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:47:01 PM 
> Subject: Re: [ale] Anyone using Docker? 
> 
> On 06/10/2014 08:05 AM, JD wrote: 
>> Anyone using Docker to host applications? 
>>
>> Pros/Cons, pitfalls? 
>>
>> I'd think that areas were a simple network is needed would work great, but if 
>> complex networking/firewalls are necessary (like a virtual router) would be 
>> better using other technologies? 
> 
> I've toyed with it... I haven't had the time to spend with it yet to get 
> to really know it. In concept, it's really appealing. 
> 
> — Mike