<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>I use containers all the time for the day job and I use them a little at home. The day job is mostly Docker. It's really great and easy to use but the root access issue still bugs me.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">I also use Singularity and it's great! Easy to install, use, and make containers. I use a little at work but more so at home. It allows me to create a container for some applications and then move them around my systems as needed.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">YMMV.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jeff</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505566184289_18097"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1505566184289_17836"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, September 16, 2017 5:18 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio@jdpfu.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">On 09/15/2017 10:30 PM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Are any of you using containers for anything? Most of my customers are<br clear="none">> SAP HANA (2 to 4TB of RAM and 20 to 60 CPU cores). The technology looks<br clear="none">> cool... I just can't find a use for it.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I use cgroups, namespaces, and chroots all the time. Daily. Constantly.<br clear="none"> Right now. I've only played with docker.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">They are single use processes. No shells. No sshd. No patching.<br clear="none">Limited access to most of the hostOS file system.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is that a "container"?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I would use containers for internal software development and deployment.<br clear="none">I'm not ready to place them on the internet at this point. If I allowed<br clear="none">php webapps to be internet facing, I'd run each of them in a container<br clear="none">with nothing else, so WHEN they are hacked, there isn't enough of an OS<br clear="none">there to have a shell, no editor, and do anything except run the webapp.<div class="yqt0883946021" id="yqtfd71364"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Ale mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Ale@ale.org" href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br clear="none">See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>