Here is a Register article, which covers the same ground as Joe's post:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/26/docker_spreads_to_more_linux_distros/ " For instance, Docker could be used to run a database in one container and an app server in another, and the configurable isolation properties" So can we think of batch schedulers which woudl reserve parts of big NUMA machines, and run docker containers on them? Also fromthe blog, Offline Transfer: "The exported bundles are regular directories, and can be transported by any file transfer mechanism, included ftp, physical media, proprietary installers, etc . This feature is particulary interesting for software vendors who need to ship their software as sealed appliances to their “enterprise” customers. Using offline transfer, they can use docker containers as the delivery mechanism for software updates" That is really interesting. Can we forsee users running on in-house clusters with Docker containers, which may be commercial applications delivered pre-packaged by an ISV, or locally developed? Then when they need more capacity in short timescales just exporting those containers to run on a cloud (let's say AWS ) and be confident they will run in the same way?
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