Subj : Exploring Docker: Revolutionising Application Deployment
To   : deon
From : Louis Northmore
Date : Wed May 29 2024 08:59:20


   Hello deon!

 de> Howdy,

 >> What are some of the coolest use cases of Docker you've seen or
 >> implemented?

 de> I'm regularly changing my hosts around, and docker makes it wasy to
 de> lift and shift an app from one place to another. With the contain
 de> having everything that is needed to run the app (libraries an all), a
 de> host directory contains all the data and configuration. So moving
 de> hosts is just a copy operation and
 de> Ive been trying to get into kubernetes, and switching everything over
 de> to it. But I havent solved the storage problem - and everytime I
 de> start, I get distracted with other things and never complete. I'll get
 de> there one day...

Yep, I've got a kubernetes setup here, split across a mix of VM's in my proxmox cluster and some raspberry pi's.
Storage is handled by NFS external provisioner which is actually working kinda nice.

https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/nfs-subdir-external-provisioner/

It keeps me busy at the weekend :)

Louis


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