[ale] Does anyone have any experience actually running Docker?

Jeremy T. Bouse jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net
Thu Apr 6 10:05:30 EDT 2017


On 4/6/2017 9:52 AM, Kyle Brieden wrote:
> So I keep hearing just how awesome and wonderful and life-changing
> Docker is, but no one online seems to want to actually tell me how to
> USE it.  All the documentation I've found thus far either:
>
> A) Makes assumptions about your environment, then fails to describe
> how to translate concepts to other environments
> B) Assumes you're already well versed in the basics, so starts at 80MPH
> C) Was written in 2014 or earlier
>
> I understand the concept, and I appreciate *why* containers are
> fundamentally different than VMs, I just want to be able to actually
> "Dockerize" an application.
>
> I just want a MySQL container, a uWSGI/Django container, and an Nginx
> container, but how do I go about getting those?  How do I get my code
> into that container?  Is anyone a docker expert or does anyone have a
> "0 to 45MPH docker crash course?"  I'm not looking for full out
> enterprise-ready production, here.  Just want to learn enough to get
> my app off the ground on my own docker host, then understand enough to
> push it up into something like AWS ECS or something.
>
> Thanks!
I don't claim to be a Docker expert but I do have 2 Docker clusters
running myself currently (One in cloud and one on Raspberry Pi) along
with managing several AWS ECS clusters for work.

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