Bootstrapping the open-source Sandbox on top of Docker

Post by StavrosK » Thu, May 23, 2013, 2:05 AM UTC

kalessin wrote: post #10

StavrosK wrote: post #8

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Hell, I do significant amounts of server/Linux work, and still don't understand Docker (it doesn't help that I haven't been able to run it because btrfs). I understand that it's a lightweigth container, but what's the advantage? Aren't images still 2+ GB? Do I have to version the entire FS instead of 2-3 config files? Can I freeze it? Can I push it to a server? How long will that take? Can I use the same image on dev…

You don't need to have btrfs to run Docker (you need aufs which is included in Debian and Ubuntu). Yes, in the end images are an entire filesystem and can be large if you installed a lot of packages (or very small, e.g: busybox). Yes, you can freeze it: you can commit a container as a new image. Yes, you can push it to a server ( https://index.docker.io/ ). Yes, you can use the same image for development, staging and…

Post by kalessin » Thu, May 23, 2013, 2:13 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #11

kalessin wrote: post #10

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You don't need to have btrfs to run Docker (you need aufs which is included in Debian and Ubuntu). Yes, in the end images are an entire filesystem and can be large if you installed a lot of packages (or very small, e.g: busybox). Yes, you can freeze it: you can commit a container as a new image. Yes, you can push it to a server ( https://index.docker.io/ ). Yes, you can use the same image for development, staging and…

Ah, that clears things up a bit, thanks. However, Docker currently has a bug that prevents it from running on btrfs, which I'm running on.

Post by dhrp » Thu, May 23, 2013, 2:23 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #7

dhrp wrote: post #3

I think this is pretty cool. As a front end developer I would like to see this mature into a project which "makes my life easier", and currently, one of the biggest pains, I think is setting up a nginx or apache project with the right WSGI directives. What I would love to see this develop into is a way to get my code pretty much straight from my IDE to a server of my own (whether hardware or virtual). I know it is ve…

Try this: http://www.korokithakis.net/posts/example-provisioning-and-d... You can go from fresh installation to complete Django stack in one command.