[ale] Vagrant: was Behind on your "Container Skills"

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 21:42:34 -0500
"Ted W. via Ale" <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:09:36PM -0500, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> > 
> > Certainly a few people here are using containers. There are over
> > 1100+ other members, lurking.
> > 
> > Questions:
> > a) Containers or not?
> > b) If yes, production or not?
> > 
> > My answers:
> > a) I have a few toy containers; none running now.
> > b) Zero in production.  
> 
> I am sorry to all of those who have come to the conclusion that
> containers are inherently bad. I believe they (Docker in particular)
> gets that reputation from many of the half baked "tutorials" due to
> it's low barrier to entry as well as it's often poor documentation
> due to Docker's current rapid rate of development.

[snip]

> a) Containers or not?
> Yes. We've had Docker in production for a while and are currently
> rolling out Kubernetes with production ramp up scheduled to start this
> quarter.

On a somewhat related topic, what's your opinion of Vagrant?

SteveT

Steve Litt
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