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Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by dekz »

chubot wrote: post #59

Just curious, how are people building Docker images these days? Doesn't it only run on 64-bit Linux? I have a 32 bit Linux desktop and a Mac and haven't gotten around to installing Docker. At work I have a 64 bit Linux desktop and it seemed to be extremely picky about the kernel version so I gave up. Are people running Linux VMs on their Macs to build containers? I like the idea of this service. But both the client s…

I'm building docker images on 64-bit linux (ubuntu) and maintaining a repo of Dockerfiles, instead of uploading to the docker repository.

You need a recent version of the linux kernel that supports Linux Containers. It's best if you can run Ubuntu 13 somewhere.

> Are people running Linux VMs on their Macs to build containers?

FreeBSD supports jails which are similar to linux containers in a way, but OSX does not. So unfortunately you're going to have to run a VM, checkout vagrant and docker though. [1]

[1]: http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/vagrant/

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by Lazare »

chubot wrote: post #59

Just curious, how are people building Docker images these days? Doesn't it only run on 64-bit Linux? I have a 32 bit Linux desktop and a Mac and haven't gotten around to installing Docker. At work I have a 64 bit Linux desktop and it seemed to be extremely picky about the kernel version so I gave up. Are people running Linux VMs on their Macs to build containers? I like the idea of this service. But both the client s…

Yes. Emerging best practices seems to be to use Vagrant to create a great development environment, then use docker containers inside that for isolation. The two work together quite well. There's a comment from the Vagrant creator here about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6291549

In short, yes, just run a VM.

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by shykes »

Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here's my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple months.

* http://baremetal.io

* http://digitalocean.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image)

* http://orchardup.com

* http://rackspace.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image)

* http://stackdock.com

EDIT: sorted alphabetically to keep everyone happy :)

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by sillysaurus2 »

shykes wrote: post #63

Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here's my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple months. * http://baremetal.io * http://digitalocean.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://orchardup.com * http://rackspace.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://stackdock.com EDI…

The rise of Docker is fascinating. How did you get people to care about it initially? Did everyone immediately see it as a good idea? Congrats.

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by shykes »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #64
shykes wrote: post #63

Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here's my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple months. * http://baremetal.io * http://digitalocean.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://orchardup.com * http://rackspace.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://stackdock.com EDI…

The rise of Docker is fascinating. How did you get people to care about it initially? Did everyone immediately see it as a good idea? Congrats.

We spent 3 months going door to door, making demos to people I knew were working on similar projects or looking for one. We had a good reputation in the ops and systems engineering community because of our work on dotCloud over the last 6 years. Then we bootstrapped the open-source community with that initial group of 30-50 people willing to federate efforts. By the time the project was leaked on hacker news, the github repo and mailing list were already very active.

Early members of that "seed" community included engineers from Twilio, Heroku, Soundcloud, Koding, Google, Meteor, RethinkDB, Mailgun, as well as the current members of the Flynn project.

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by peteforde »

Angostura wrote: post #15

I love the fact that you keep trying to define your own vocubulary 'Deck' etc, but always have to explain it. Best to stick with the more eaily understood term, rather than invent your own, I think. Unless you're going to try and trademark them all.

Heroku created almost as many new terms as Tolkien, and they seem to have made out just fine.

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by mic159 »

rmoriz wrote: post #47
cmaggard wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A traceroute of their blog, or a server you just spun up? They don't necessarily have to eat their own dogfood.

If you offer infrastructure services and don't eat your own dogfood you can't be serious. If you offer infrastructure services and don't tell people where and how you provide it, you can't be serious, too.

But if you host your site on your infrastructure, and it goes down, you can't post status updates to tell people what's going on/ when you will be back online. Its quite reasonable to not host your own homepage or mechanism of updating your customers IMO.

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by atomaka »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #64
shykes wrote: post #63

Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here's my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple months. * http://baremetal.io * http://digitalocean.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://orchardup.com * http://rackspace.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://stackdock.com EDI…

The rise of Docker is fascinating. How did you get people to care about it initially? Did everyone immediately see it as a good idea? Congrats.

The real question is why Sun didn't succeed in leveraging this technology with their implementation of zones.

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by arianvanp »

I Love the idea! really. I just don't like all the UX yet. Some things feel ... off. It might be something personal. I'm not sure. But I guess it's interesting to discuss. "Drops are distilled Decks" The words feel semantically mismatched for some reason. If I think "Deck"I don't think "Config". If I think "Drop" I don'think "Deployable stuff" and I don't see how a "Distilled deck" is a "drop". Also it feels odd that I can create a "New deck" in the "instances" section.

though adding "cards" to a "deck" sounds intuitive.

I'm trying to come up with better terminology. something with ships and containers...

Re: Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5

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Post by bacongobbler »

shykes wrote: post #63

Hi everyone, Docker maintainer here. Here's my list of docker hosting services. Please correct me if I forgot one! I expect this list to get much, much longer in the next couple months. * http://baremetal.io * http://digitalocean.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://orchardup.com * http://rackspace.com (not docker-specific but they have a great docker image) * http://stackdock.com EDI…

I found this one a couple weeks ago! https://stackmachine.com/
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