[ale] Behind on your "Container Skills"

[Preston]

For those of us in the cheap seats, (roughly) how many physical hosts?



On 5/7/2018 8:27 AM, 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)
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> I was in an architectural meeting where we spec’d out 250,000 production containers to be deployed by year end 2018.
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> My density is off the chain and only getting tighter.
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> 
> —j
> 
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>> On Jan 9, 2018, at 9:42 PM, Ted W. via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
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>>> 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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