Hi Terri, - Why you decided to use docker? docker is a light weight container which makes the software deployment easy and quick. In a distributed environment when multiple components needs to be installed across many host systems its cumbersome job to install them manually across all the nodes.
- Who do you expect to use docker to install airavata components, .eg., just airavata developers? Or also third parties that want to install airavata? For both developers and end users. If one developer is not concerned with another component, he can simply have the docker for that component. - Will docker be the primary (or recommended, or only documented) way of installing airavata? No not the only way. We are integrating airavata with mesos/marathon and they work very well with docker. Whenever for load balancing purpose,we need more instances of any airavata components, we can pull respective docker container and start it. No need to manually install them again. This makes the system elastic. - In our own case, I'm concerned that some sys admins aren't all that crazy about running docker yet, due to security concerns. Do you see this as an issue for your use case? Not yet. Thanks Pankaj On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Schwartz, Terri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been noticing the emails back and forth about dockerfiles for > airavata and am curious about your decision to use docker. We're > contemplating using docker and would benefit from understanding your > decision. I'd appreciate it if someone would explain: > > - Why you decided to use docker? > > - Who do you expect to use docker to install airavata components, .eg., > just airavata developers? Or also third parties that want to install > airavata? > > - Will docker be the primary (or recommended, or only documented) way of > installing airavata? > > - In our own case, I'm concerned that some sys admins aren't all that > crazy about running docker yet, due to security concerns. Do you see this > as an issue for your use case? > > Thanks very much, > Terri >
