[ale] Behind on your "Container Skills"

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon May 7 10:30:23 EDT 2018


And Jerald will be giving a detailed talk on large scale container
deployment to ALE Central on <fill in the date here>.
On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 09:27 -0400, Jerald Sheets via Ale wrote:
> A quick note on this old thread about using containers in production.
> 
> We just stood up Production container number 25,000 last week. (along
> with a large complement of supporting containers)
> 
> I was in an architectural meeting where we spec’d out 250,000
> production containers to be deployed by year end 2018.
> 
> My density is off the chain and only getting tighter.
> 
> 
> —j
> 
> 
> > On Jan 9, 2018, at 9:42 PM, 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.
> 
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