[ale] Containers... use?

[Jeff Layton]

Well, the day job involves Deep Learning so I run some of the frameworks 
in Docker. I think you can run a web/application server inside Docker. I 
bet there are some blogs on the web about it.

Jeff

> What kind of applications do you run in your docker containers?  I was 
> thinking about using them for web/application servers.  Some of my 
> clients use NFS mounts.  I have looked into using persistent NFS 
> storage. The NFS exports are IP-restricted to the individual systems 
> so static IPs are a must as well.  It would be cool to have a 
> customer’s web server front-end scale as the workload increased or 
> decreased.
>
> /Raj
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net 
> <mailto:laytonjb at att.net>> wrote:
>
>     I use containers all the time for the day job and I use them a
>     little at home. The day job is mostly Docker. It's really great
>     and easy to use but the root access issue still bugs me.
>
>     I also use Singularity and it's great! Easy to install, use, and
>     make containers. I use a little at work but more so at home. It
>     allows me to create a container for some applications and then
>     move them around my systems as needed.
>
>     YMMV.
>
>     Jeff
>
>
>
>     On Saturday, September 16, 2017 5:18 AM, DJ-Pfulio
>     <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 09/15/2017 10:30 PM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > Are any of you using containers for anything? Most of my
>     customers are
>     > SAP HANA (2 to 4TB of RAM and 20 to 60 CPU cores). The
>     technology looks
>     > cool... I just can't find a use for it.
>
>     I use cgroups, namespaces, and chroots all the time. Daily. 
>     Constantly.
>     Right now.  I've only played with docker.
>
>     They are single use processes. No shells. No sshd.  No patching.
>     Limited access to most of the hostOS file system.
>
>     Is that a "container"?
>
>     I would use containers for internal software development and
>     deployment.
>     I'm not ready to place them on the internet at this point. If I
>     allowed
>     php webapps to be internet facing, I'd run each of them in a container
>     with nothing else, so WHEN they are hacked, there isn't enough of
>     an OS
>     there to have a shell, no editor, and do anything except run the
>     webapp.
>
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