Hi all, This thread is becoming more interesting all the time :)
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:06:53AM +0000, Stuart Johnson wrote: > > If you're in a production environment, you will tend to start or stop > > your containers as seldom as you will start and stop your servers. > > > I see this as a good reason to have a simple control panel. When you > seldom use something, you tend to forget how to do things, or in the > case of manageing multiple servers, you forget how each one is > configured. A simple visual interface helps to get the job done with the > confidence your not going to break anything. > > As a developer, I may be required to install something on a clients > machine, and I want to set up a container to protect their system and > myself from any mishap. A simple ncurses app, would allow me to add a > container without worrying about what distro i am using, or interfering > with existing containers should there be any. Here you touch another interesting aspect. And that is what you tend to run inside containers. The LXC Linux Containers provide us with a beautifull light and elegant solution. So suppose you have a nice text-mode application to create and manage containers, what will you install into them, and how would you like to do that? If you go for a small, simple and elegant solution like LXC, then put something small and specific to the job in them. Which means a container that contains just enough to get the job done. Putting a full Ubuntu or Fedora distro inside a container is IMHO something of a contradiction towards the container approach. If you go for bloat, you might as well use kvm or xen to run that distro. > As a newbie, I may want to try LXC out without a steep learning curve. IMHO that requires available container-images, ready to run. Something like what http://www.turnkeylinux.org provides, but than in container-format. That would be really cool ... Cheers, Matto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
