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

[Ted W.]

Personally, I find I like containers for any use case where I'd think to
use Vagrant. The exception to that being building kernel modules. Since
containers are going to have the same kernel as the host system building
an RPM for a module from a vendor with instructions similar to

`rpmbuild -ts totally_not_an_intel_driver.tar.gz`

can be tedious when you need it on a different kernel. I could see
Vagrant being helpful for that.

My main issue with it is the battery drain and piggishness of VMs in
general. When possible, if I'm on my laptop, I try to avoid running
them. Sure you can use one of the cloud hosting providers but I guess
for me it's not really my go-to for cloud provisioning since most of the
time I'm using terraform already for that.

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:56:55PM -0500, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
> 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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