[ale] Containers... use?

Joey Kelly joey at joeykelly.net
Sat Sep 16 19:23:49 EDT 2017


On Friday 15 September 2017 22:30:01 Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> Are any of you using containers for anything? Most of my customers are SAP
> HANA (2 to 4TB of RAM and 20 to 60 CPU cores). The technology looks cool...
> I just can't find a use for it.


I've played around with FreeBSD jails. They work. I wanted MariaDB, but would 
have had to remove MySQL which would have broken too many packages, so in a 
jail it went.

On a related note, I've heard from sources that Docker is the Wrong Place (tm) 
to put an RDBMS. but a jail is database-safe.

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