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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Oh great, so nothing opposes to have a Sympa docker images.

If it is useful, of course.

Regards,

David


On 20/03/2018 16:35, Matthew Caron wrote:
> You can run multiple processes inside docker. I'm not sure where folks
> got the idea that it can only do one.
>
>  From a user perspective, a docker install looks like any other
> virtualized server install. You can specify what packages you have when
> you spin up the container, and then you can install and configure your
> own stuff however you like.
>
> For example: at work, we containerized our build system so that everyone
> uses the requisite Ubuntu 16.04 system, set up a certain way, in order
> to ensure predictable results. However, everyone runs a mix of Mint,
> Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc. on their desktops, according to personal
> preference. You can pass the build a -j argument with the number of jobs
> and it will spin up that many jobs. I have 4 cores, hyperthreaded, so I
> run it with -j 8.
>
> On 03/20/2018 05:15 AM, David Verdin wrote:
> > Interesting. If You can have only one process on Docker, we'll have
> > troubles; The fork is at the core of Sympa behaviour.
> >
> > We use it to send emails, to tweak distribution rate based on the number
> > of bulks, to create new fcgi processes, etc.
> >
> > If the number of processes is really a problem, you'd better give up
> > Docker for Sympa.
> >
> > We have a working Ansible playbook on sympa-vommunity if you want to
> > ease deployment.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > On 16/03/2018 17:28, Dave Page wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 08:20:08AM +0100, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> > >
> > > > we started your own one during the last hackathon but we never finished
> > > > it because:
> > > >
> > > > * the philosophy of docker is to contain one process by image
> > > > * sympa run multiple processes
> > > I'm not sure that /is/ the philosophy of Docker. The philosophy is one
> > > /workload/ per image, IME. For example, the FreeIPA Docker container -
> > > https://www.freeipa.org/page/Docker - which runs an LDAP server, web
> > > server,
> > > Kerberos server and other things in one container, to provide one
> > > coherent set
> > > of functionality.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave

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