On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Victor J. Orlikowski < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Jeff Trawick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > * oh, and make it possible for 90% of the potential user base to be > running 2.4.latest in several minutes without possibly interfering with > existing software; user guide material (above) must support having the > user's own application deployed behind httpd a few minutes later > > > The “new hotness” making something like this possible, on Linux and OS X > at least, is Docker. > Here’s the Dockerfile in github: > https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/httpd > > The “deploy X application, according to how the developers spelled it out, > isolated from host OS environment” scenario has been pretty much captured > and owned by the Docker folks; they’ve done a masterful job of it. > Cool stuff. I can see the "Here's my application, give me a Docker file that runs it using httpd-latest." path being very easy on the user with Docker and relatively easy on the binary provider. (Unfortunately I don't know nearly enough about the way Docker can be used to understand all the implications for the user around software upgrades and managing their configurations and applications.) > > Best, > Victor > -- > Victor J. Orlikowski <> [email protected] > > -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/
