<div dir="ltr">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:55 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Why one application per container? Why not one container per project?<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool_______________________________________________<br>
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