Russell, I am a big fan of virtualization. Just not Docker. That seems to be a trainwreck due to all the dependency issues.
I should have been more clear. Mitch On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:05 PM Russell Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I wouldn't go as far as to say it's for server side apps only as it's used > to sandbox development/production environments particularly programs > written in Go and for running many different versions of an app at once, > allowing upgrades of individual apps without effecting the rest of the > system and actually oodles of things. > > OK running an emulator inside a container probably isn't it's best use but > as it's light weight the speed decrease is minimal in fact I can't even see > any slowdown at all running at max cpu and it means I can plonk VirtualT on > a computer (now my container is built) in about 2 minutes, 1m30s of that > being the file transfer time > > -Russell > > On 4/8/2017 8:54 PM, Mitch Parker wrote: > > Docker is a "container " meaning really lightweight virtual machine. > Dockerizing is when you get an application to run in a docker container > without major issues. > > It is not good for anything other than server side apps. I would not > recommend it for a GUI app. > > Mitch > On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 8:52 PM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > What is docker / dockerized? > > -- John. > > >
