Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : Arelor
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Apr 18 2023 13:32:00

-=> Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ar>   Re: Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
 Ar>   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>.
 >

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

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

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

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

Excellent explanation, thank you; and that actually makes good 
sense..... if you're a developer.  Perhaps I should have added that to 
my statement above about it not making sense (for a "normal" user).



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