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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On 3/20/18 2:12 PM, Matthew Caron wrote:

> On 03/20/2018 01:33 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Me, I run my mail environment in a Xen VM, with failover to a second
> > machine - using DRBD to replicate disks.  It all works.  I expect that
> > setting things up inside containers wouldn't be all that much more
> > tedious - but there's lots of stuff to install, and interfaces to be
> > considered.  Your mileage may vary.
> I run mine on just bare metal (inasmuch as a hosted linode instance is
> bare metal). Abstracts all the failover away because it happens
> seamlessly because of the VM hosting layer thay provide.
Well.. actually a VM - not sure what they actually use as a hypervisor, 
but yes, essentially a standard linux environment.
> I think the core here is what is the actual user story. It sounds to me
> like someone said "I had problem X, I think we can fix it with docker".
>
> The real questions are, "what is problem X", and "is docker really the
> best solution"?
>
> It could be that you're right, and docker isn't best suited for that,
> and a virtualbox image would be better. The difference in overhead is
> pretty low these days.
Sounds exactly right.

Cheers,

Miles

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