Containers

Will containers take over ?

June 15, 2016

and if so why haven’t they done so yet ?

Unlike many people think, containers are not new, they have been around for more than a decade, they however just became popular for a larger part of our ecosystem. Some people think containers will eventually take over.

Imvho It is all about application workloads, when 8 years ago I wrote about a decade of open source virtualization, we looked at containers as the solution for running a large number of isolated instances of something on a machine. And with large we meant hundreds or more instances of apache, this was one of the example use cases for an ISP that wanted to give a secure but isolated platform to his users. One container per user.

It's just rubber , with some air in it.

March 23, 2016

A child balloon
you inflate it, play with it for a while, then it explodes, you throw it away you inflate another one, maybe even a different color. the kid plays with it .. till it breaks, then you throw it away…
An inflatable castle.
you inflate it, play with it for a while, deflate it, move it around, inflate it again, if it has a hole in it, you patch the hole.

Docker vs Reality , 0 - 1

November 27, 2013

(aka the opinionated summary of the #devopsdays London November OpenSpace on , Containers and the new flood of Image Sprawl)

There’s a bunch of people out there that think I don’t like docker, they are wrong.

I just never understood the hype about it since I didn’t see, (and still don’t) see it being used at large and people seem to understand that as being against it.

So let me put a couple of things straight :