* Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> [20151226 12:33]: > In the past few years, there have been some bits and pieces of > discussion about "instanced services", i.e. some kind of supervised > service that would be able to create different instances of the > process at will. But it never got very detailed. > > I'd like to ask you: if you feel that instanced services are > useful, what functionality would you like to see ? Concretely, > practically, what do you want to be able to do ? > > Please stay away from mechanism and implementation details; > I'm just trying to get a very high-level, conceptual feel for it > at the moment - "what", as opposed to "how".
FWIW "what" I've needed when deploying "multiple instances of a service" has always been diferent configuration for the same binaries. "How" I have usually done it has been via env/ symlinks (storing in env/ anything from variables for envdir or application-specific configuration files). qvb -- pica
