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Docker looks like it is *nix only. It CAN be run on windows and Mac...inside a VM, which kind of eliminates all the advantages they talk about. An option is Va
by rurounijones 13y ago
Docker looks like it is *nix only. It CAN be run on windows and Mac...inside a VM, which kind of eliminates all the advantages they talk about.
An option is Vagrant (Which Docker uses on the above OSes) + chef / puppet.
It uses VMs but works well enough for me and both configuration engines have widespread support. http://docs-v1.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/getting-started/ http://docs-v1.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/getting-started/
- marcamillion 13y agoI hate the small delays of a VM environment though. Rails already has some minor loading issues, adding a VM to that can be very frustrating - I imagine.
- shykes 13y agoRunning docker inside doesn't eliminate all the advantages. For example, you can test a full stack of components (frontend, database, memcache, background workers...) on a single VM, instead of deploying 1 vm per component, which gets really heavy really fast. Another advantage is that docker on a vm is still docker: the container running on your local VM is 100% identical, bute-for-byte, to the container you will run on an octo-core box with half a tera of ram.
- krakensden 13y agoNot *nix only, Linux only. Solaris and FreeBSD have totally different container mechanisms, which honestly are probably better understood and vetted at this point than the LXC approach.