[ale] Containers

[Pete Hardie]

Most innovations in software just kick the existing problems down the road
a decade, and introduce at least 1 new problem


On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 9:08 AM Robert Slaughter via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Because poorly-written Java applications consume all available memory of
> the host, and apps like that on the same host eventually collide and
> interfere with one another. Containers avoid that issue by introducing
> others.
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:55 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Why one application per container? Why not one container per project?
>>
>> Take the basic web pile: web gui front end , logic layer, and backend
>> database. The only part that changes in use is the data stored by the
>> backend. Pre-container days it all ran on a single host. Or virtual host.
>> Or maybe the database ran on a beefy system and multiple front/logic layers
>> fed it.
>>
>> If the project requires multiple parts to run, why not put them all in a
>> single container? Assuming, of course, the size of things makes sense.
>>
>> I ask because I've run into the issue where a critical application,
>> composed of multiple containers across multiple hosts fails because a host
>> is rebooted, a network issue, other normal problems.
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