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As an example of Docker in production: Expedia are moving lots of their legacy infrastructure into Docker containers. My third-party contracting team that works

by girvo 10y ago

As an example of Docker in production: Expedia are moving lots of their legacy infrastructure into Docker containers. My third-party contracting team that works on projects for Expedia (we're brought in so the rules and bureaucracy don't apply to use, allowing us to rapidly iterate and experiment in ways the core teams can't) have been using Docker end-to-end (local development through to autoscaled production deploys) While there were teething issues, this article does a good job of pointing out the flaws in the original article, I think. It's been easier to get our team up to speed on Docker and it's gotchas than nearly any other configuration management, server management, et al. systems that we tried!

user5994461 10y ago
Short version: Nope :p Long version: I met the DevOps guy who [I believe] is responsible for pushing Docker at Expedia and we've had long conversations about it. They were lucky to have had a particular environment and a specific version that worked, and got it pinned down and frozen very early. I suppose you are on the dev side and not aware of all that. (Hell, maybe, you're not even in the same subsidiary of Expedia). I'm glad it all worked out for you as a dev, my devs are also happy with Docker. (We're probably used as an example of Docker success story at times). In the end, there is no free lunch. There is dirty work done and more to be done. Some of which is invisible.
- girvo 10y ago
  Sorry if I didn't explain it correctly! We're an external team (completely seperate to Expedia) that is brought in to build certain products :) And yeah, definitely. I spent a couple weeks debugging the ECS issues we had with the Wotif guys, which was fun, but none of the issues were insurmountable! We were one of the first adopters for the new ECS deployment, and while some parts of it weren't fun (Splunk still drives me mental) for the most part it went smoothly: that's down to how good the ops team is, I think. Our specific case was somewhat special, in that because we're outside of the rest of the infrastructure, and had extensive experience with Docker in production for other clients, our apps were basically ready to rock from the get-go. I think we were the first PHP deployment within the new ECS deployments! Should send me an email, it's in my profile, would love to chat sometime!

by girvo 10y ago

user5994461 10y ago

Short version: Nope :p Long version: I met the DevOps guy who [I believe] is responsible for pushing Docker at Expedia and we've had long conversations about it. They were lucky to have had a particular environment and a specific version that worked, and got it pinned down and frozen very early. I suppose you are on the dev side and not aware of all that. (Hell, maybe, you're not even in the same subsidiary of Expedia). I'm glad it all worked out for you as a dev, my devs are also happy with Docker. (We're probably used as an example of Docker success story at times). In the end, there is no free lunch. There is dirty work done and more to be done. Some of which is invisible.

girvo 10y ago
Sorry if I didn't explain it correctly! We're an external team (completely seperate to Expedia) that is brought in to build certain products :) And yeah, definitely. I spent a couple weeks debugging the ECS issues we had with the Wotif guys, which was fun, but none of the issues were insurmountable! We were one of the first adopters for the new ECS deployment, and while some parts of it weren't fun (Splunk still drives me mental) for the most part it went smoothly: that's down to how good the ops team is, I think. Our specific case was somewhat special, in that because we're outside of the rest of the infrastructure, and had extensive experience with Docker in production for other clients, our apps were basically ready to rock from the get-go. I think we were the first PHP deployment within the new ECS deployments! Should send me an email, it's in my profile, would love to chat sometime!