Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : Gamgee
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Apr 18 2023 12:45:31

  Re: Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
  By: Gamgee to Tracker1 on Mon Apr 17 2023 08:07 pm

 > I've never really seen the point of docker.  Seems like a lot of extra
 > work for..... what?  Security?  I'm on a home LAN and am not worried
 > about that.  As for backups etc... not sure how it could really be
 > easier than an automated rsync (or similar) every night, to both a LAN
 > device, and an off-location device.  But anyway.... <SHRUG>.
 > 

I am not a docker advocate, but now we are at it:

The advantage of docker is that a developer may create and test an application in a
given environment (with a set of libraries, databases and support components) and then
serve it to a use without caring too much about which environment the user is running
(since the user will run it as if it were a capsule).

Docker images are also stateless, which means you can create and destroy them on
demand if you are running somehting which is very heavy load. For example, if you are
running a heavy game service, you may use an orchestator to launch instances of the
game service on demand according to the number of players you are getting, and then
use a load balancer to spread the load across the nodes. If you have a spike of users,
you auto-deploy game nodes. If users become few, you auto-reduce the number of nodes.


Docker does not help that much with backups in that scenario because docker instances
are supposed to be stateless. You typically have a storage backend for managing
persistent data.

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