I've been working with Docker and with the Red Hat docker team for over a year. Mostly I'm doing a kind of research, trying out how to get things to work end-to-end, finding the warts and all.
I'm wondering where your interest comes from. If it's just "Docker, shiny!" (which is perfectly valid, I do that all the time) then I'd say spend some time, play with it and see where it might fit into your work. If you have specific uses in mind, then more specific questions might lead to some answers or at least suggestions. If you're starting from scratch, I'd also strongly recommend looking at CoreOS Rocket. It doesn't have some of the nice plastic dashboard features but it's much simpler in operation. Docker works hard to hide the workings behind a veneer, which is great for getting started without being confused by minutia. It quickly becomes bubblewrap. Rocket leaves most of the sharp edges exposed, but still gives you a way to create and run containers which allows you to get in and see what's happening more easily. It also promotes lean images. Docker == bloat. See Alva's comments on getting the container images right. Docker isn't going to make your life easier right out of the gate but it brings some things in reach which aren't without it. - Mark On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > We are heavily using Docker as a development platform for an extremely > complex project (180,000 lines of python, 10 developers, complex system > requirements). For that, it is ideal, > but > a) avoid boot2docker for Windows…. just run it in Linux… we learned to do > that eventually. > b) it takes significant time to make a container work perfectly… and it’s > worth it. > We are not using Docker in production; we use it to make exact clones of > development > environments. This is not a trivial task; we have one person who spends a > considerable amount of time rolling out changes and keeping the development > containers running. > > Alva L. Couch > Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science > Tufts University > Medford, MA 02155 > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > -- ---- Mark Lamourine <[email protected]> Dad, Hubbie, Software Developer, System Administrator, Road Cyclist
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