Subj : Re: Multiple BBSes
To   : Havok
From : deon
Date : Sun Dec 27 2020 07:57 am

  Re: Re: Multiple BBSes
  By: Havok to deon on Sat Dec 26 2020 02:26 pm

Howdy,

 Ha>  If that is the case I'll stick with VMware!

Given that, I run both (VMware and docker), and where I can I put everything into docker images - I'm a huge fan.

My BBS (SBBS) and fidohub are both containers (that auto-build using gitlab CI).

I like docker for a few reasons:

* Its an OS environment that I dont need to manage, update, etc

* My OS hosts are very "thin" - bare, bare minimum, enough to run the docker runtime. (Again less to manage and less
security exposures.)

* And lastly, docker makes you think about "application files", "working space" and "data". Application files go in the
image, workspace I dont care about (its ephemeral), and data goes onto a persistent mount. So now, when I backup, I only need a copy of the image (which is in my registry and any other host that my container ran on), and the data of the application.

With this strategy, backup is super easy - and you can take the image with the data (for that image) and arhive it, move it between hosts very easily.

With VMware, I create 3 docker hosts and create a "swarm". Most of my containers "float" between the 3 hosts, enabling me to take 1 down for something (OS updates, etc), and the apps just float to another host and continue to run (without doing anything).

So for me, I'm a huge fan of docker (and of VMware).

....лоеп

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