Yo dawg, I have a question; I have two tabs open to developer.rackspace.com and both posts contain multiple "image macro" type memes and phrases such as "I'm going to ride the command line like a cowboy". Do y'all really talk like that or do you just assume everyone else does? I'm 31 and love me some internet pablum but I don't want to see it everywhere. Sometimes the internet really is serious business, right?<p>On topic, I've been spending some time looking at Docker this morning because there seems to be a lot of buzz around it. I am winding this exploration down for the moment because I am discovering that for all the talk about how easy and fast Docker makes things, the list of what you can do with it today amounts to:<p>- Postgresql
- redis
- mysql, apache and sshd Wordpress stack
- nginx, php and Wordpress<p>[sic]<p>So, right now aside from the dubious differentiator of being able to spin up an SSD-hosted WordPress instance in 78 seconds, Docker doesn't seem to be very compelling. I will certainly keep an eye on it though.
This image describe my feelings:<p><a href="http://developer.rackspace.com/images/2013-11-11-peanut-butter-docker-time/yodawg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://developer.rackspace.com/images/2013-11-11-peanut-butt...</a><p>Why not just come up with a sane deployment strategy instead of hacking LXC to do it?<p>While Docker is interesting, we've been doing the same thing with OpenVZ for years now, minus a lot of the hype. Containerization is great but it's being applied to the wrong problem.<p>As a Linux admin, the claim that it's 'Portable' really irks me. Portable, in this context, is misleading, as it normally implies your application can run on different CPU Architectures. Apple's Universal Binaries were portable. Docker is not portable. It doesn't even support a large number of Linux distros. Good luck running it on FreeBSD or OS X without a lot of headache.<p>Docker relies on AuFS instead of a more modern COW filesystem like ZFS or btrfs.<p>Troubleshooting this in production will be a pain (no way to meter IOPS, no support for IPv6, unsupported filesystem, huge security risks over real virtualization).
Hmm, that 8gb RAM/8vCPU offering in the performance 1 group is interesting. And, a good price point too. I really wish AWS had a similar offering.<p>I might need to take a look at this. Does Rackspace also provide similar services like Elasticache, RDS, ELB and CloudFront?