Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?
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A HUGE factor is that VMs allow for multi-OS options, containers have to share a kernel. But containers are lighter. So you want containers when you can, but you often can't.
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@Emad-R said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
Have you ever used snaps ?
I like Snaps, but they aren't real containers. They are non-containers that act like people assume Docker acts, so they call them containers quite often.
Traditional containers, Type-C virtualization, like LXC is pretty far from Snaps. Docker acts like Snaps in some ways, but is build like LXC under the hood.
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@Emad-R said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
Ubuntu host OS running ubuntu container image with LAMP installed , you will not leverage the power of containers
Sure it would.
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@Emad-R said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
No more snapshotting VMs and exporting and importing, and wiping free space to reduce size.
Those are things you can easily do without containers simply by using statically linked code. Containers enforce this, sure, but it's not an intrinsic issue with non-containers.
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@JaredBusch said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
@Emad-R said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
No more snapshotting VMs and exporting and importing, and wiping free space to reduce size.
If anyone was doing this, they were doing things wrong anyway.
Right, this is something we already solved without containers.
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@JaredBusch said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
There is not point in it, as you will never scale a database server up as multiple copies.
You can, I've been in shops that did this. Rare, and we didn't use containers, but rather VMs, but containers would have worked.
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@scottalanmiller said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
@JaredBusch said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
There is not point in it, as you will never scale a database server up as multiple copies.
You can, I've been in shops that did this. Rare, and we didn't use containers, but rather VMs, but containers would have worked.
Duh, never is always assumed as "never"
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Are there many use cases in the SMB outside of Dev?
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@Obsolesce said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
Are there many use cases in the SMB outside of Dev?
Not even in dev really for the SMB. Just use a single VM to do the work. SMB rarely needs to scale.
Other than as you stated, the solution is presented that way. Like UNMS.
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@JaredBusch said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
@Obsolesce said in Conatainers (Docker) vs VMs - When and Why?:
Are there many use cases in the SMB outside of Dev?
Not even in dev really for the SMB. Just use a single VM to do the work. SMB rarely needs to scale.
Other than as you stated, the solution is presented that way. Like UNMS.
Even enterprise rarely need to scale that way. It's more for hosting companies than anything.
