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How useful are containers to the average IT person, excluding DevOps? It seems like they are designed for deploying hundreds of identical applications, not the one off apps that SMB IT generally uses.The learning curve seems to be much higher then a similar technology like virtualization which is pretty much set it and forget it.
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@coliver said:
How useful are containers to the average IT person, excluding DevOps? It seems like they are designed for deploying hundreds of identical applications, not the one off apps that SMB IT generally uses.The learning curve seems to be much higher then a similar technology like virtualization which is pretty much set it and forget it.
Not very. Containers, especially Docker style ones, are very much not for standard IT and definitely not for the SMB world in general. VMs do more of what is needed.
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@coliver said:
How useful are containers to the average IT person, excluding DevOps? It seems like they are designed for deploying hundreds of identical applications, not the one off apps that SMB IT generally uses.The learning curve seems to be much higher then a similar technology like virtualization which is pretty much set it and forget it.
I have my website in an LXC container. I mostly did it for practice, but if someone were able to gain access, they can't really do anything. It's run by a standard non-sudo user so they could affect the container and that users home dir but nothing else. Plus they are easy to backup and move around.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
How useful are containers to the average IT person, excluding DevOps? It seems like they are designed for deploying hundreds of identical applications, not the one off apps that SMB IT generally uses.The learning curve seems to be much higher then a similar technology like virtualization which is pretty much set it and forget it.
Not very. Containers, especially Docker style ones, are very much not for standard IT and definitely not for the SMB world in general. VMs do more of what is needed.
That said, Docker still falls under the potentially useful things to learn category, IMO.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
How useful are containers to the average IT person, excluding DevOps? It seems like they are designed for deploying hundreds of identical applications, not the one off apps that SMB IT generally uses.The learning curve seems to be much higher then a similar technology like virtualization which is pretty much set it and forget it.
Not very. Containers, especially Docker style ones, are very much not for standard IT and definitely not for the SMB world in general. VMs do more of what is needed.
That said, Docker still falls under the potentially useful things to learn category, IMO.
No argument there. Just that I've seen a lot of talk about it here and other locations and thought it was interesting that a technology geared more for the large scale enterprise and companies utilizing a cloud architecture was getting a lot of traction.
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I agree, it is an odd one with the amount of interest it seems to generate while being mostly non-applicable. It's cool technology but extra amazing as it is Linux-only and containers have been available for over a decade and no one really seemed to care until now. What makes Docker so interesting when Zones, Jails, OpenVZ and others have been overlooked for so long.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I agree, it is an odd one with the amount of interest it seems to generate while being mostly non-applicable. It's cool technology but extra amazing as it is Linux-only and containers have been available for over a decade and no one really seemed to care until now. What makes Docker so interesting when Zones, Jails, OpenVZ and others have been overlooked for so long.
Marketing? and hipsters?
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I agree, it is an odd one with the amount of interest it seems to generate while being mostly non-applicable. It's cool technology but extra amazing as it is Linux-only and containers have been available for over a decade and no one really seemed to care until now. What makes Docker so interesting when Zones, Jails, OpenVZ and others have been overlooked for so long.
Marketing? and hipsters?
I used containers before they were cool? Is there such a thing as IT hipsters?
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@coliver said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I agree, it is an odd one with the amount of interest it seems to generate while being mostly non-applicable. It's cool technology but extra amazing as it is Linux-only and containers have been available for over a decade and no one really seemed to care until now. What makes Docker so interesting when Zones, Jails, OpenVZ and others have been overlooked for so long.
Marketing? and hipsters?
I used containers before they were cool? Is there such a thing as IT hipsters?
I was thinking of the people that argue that ZFS is always better than other file systems or that RoR is the only programming language that matters.
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@johnhooks said:
I was thinking of the people that argue that ZFS is always better than other file systems ...
You mean it's not?
or that RoR is the only programming language that matters.
It is? Well shoot... now I gotta go learn a new programming language!
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I think I messed up NodeBB...
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What have you done!!
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Well, it looks like it won't be until after Christmas before I get my gaming PC. Had to return my original one, then they were sold out so they just refunded me.
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That sucks. I'm loving mine, even though it spends most of its time just downloading games for now.
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@scottalanmiller On the plus side, I used my Rewards Card from BestBuy to purchase all of my companies Door Prizes for the Christmas party, so I have $150 in gift certificates coming to me to make the computer that much cheaper.
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@dafyre said:
@hobbit666 Good... once you get your grips with Docker, write up a how to for the rest of us, lol.
I was but getting bloody confused now lol.
The main aim why i'm looking at this is an easy way of getting Zabbix, Unifi, Snipe-IT and possibly Screenconnect to run on a single Linux VM on a ESXi host.
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@johnhooks said:
@coliver said:
I think I messed up NodeBB...
Ha now I know who downvoted me
Did I downvote you? Let me check. Nope wasn't me. I just +1'd you to offset it though.
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@hobbit666 said:
@dafyre said:
@hobbit666 Good... once you get your grips with Docker, write up a how to for the rest of us, lol.
I was but getting bloody confused now lol.
The main aim why i'm looking at this is an easy way of getting Zabbix, Unifi, Snipe-IT and possibly Screenconnect to run on a single Linux VM on a ESXi host.
Why? It would be much simpler and easier to troubleshoot if you have them on independent VMs.
