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I have been using Digital Ocean as a sandbox for playing with Docker, and it has been great. I can spin up a server in less then 1 minute, install the Docker de

I have been using Digital Ocean as a sandbox for playing with Docker, and it has been great. I can spin up a server in less then 1 minute, install the Docker dependencies, and be up in running in no time. I do what I need to do, and then I spin it down if I don't need it anymore. I wrote down my notes on how to get Docker running on Digital Ocean, if anyone wants to play with it. There is even a promo code for a $10 credit for new signups. http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/06/running-docker-on-digital-ocean/ http://kencochrane.net/blog/2013/06/running-docker-on-digita... I had a couple of issues when I first tried using them, but I was able to get help pretty quickly on a Saturday morning no less. I haven't used them for anything production quality yet, I have most of that stuff on EC2 and Rackspace right now, but I hope to start moving some smaller projects to DO as they come up. Someone else mentioned this already as well, but the SSD is so nice compared to EC2's EBS, so if you are doing anything with lots of I/O then it is a must have.

darkarmani 13y ago
Thanks. I was up in running in no time following those directions. Oddly enough the first few tries running hello world came back with 502 errors: > root@docker:/proc# docker run base /bin/echo hello world Pulling repository base from https://index.docker.io/v1 https://index.docker.io/v1 2013/06/13 22:19:37 HTTP code: 502 After about 2 minutes it just started working. Was that a networking hiccup and on which side?
- julien421 13y ago
  This was a temporary problem due to a AWS DNS Resolution issue[1], but it seems to be back now. Do you confirm? http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ [1] 3:42 PM PDT We are investigating DNS resolution issues in the US-EAST-1 Region.
  - shykes 13y ago
    Looks like maybe it should be hosted on Digital Ocean ;)

darkarmani 13y ago

Thanks. I was up in running in no time following those directions. Oddly enough the first few tries running hello world came back with 502 errors: > root@docker:/proc# docker run base /bin/echo hello world Pulling repository base from https://index.docker.io/v1 https://index.docker.io/v1 2013/06/13 22:19:37 HTTP code: 502 After about 2 minutes it just started working. Was that a networking hiccup and on which side?

julien421 13y ago
This was a temporary problem due to a AWS DNS Resolution issue[1], but it seems to be back now. Do you confirm? http://status.aws.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ [1] 3:42 PM PDT We are investigating DNS resolution issues in the US-EAST-1 Region.
- shykes 13y ago
  Looks like maybe it should be hosted on Digital Ocean ;)