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What application container technologies are you currently using (or playing with)?

Survey period: 2 Oct 2017 to 9 Oct 2017

Containerisation (is that a word?) solves a bunch of headaches. Are you using them or doing it old school?

OptionVotes% 
Docker12713.50
Linux Containers (LXC)80.85
Linux-VServer20.21
RKT (aka Rocket)10.11
Windows Containers687.23
Other151.59
I don't use application containers72076.51



 
GeneralShould be a checkbox instead of a radio Pin
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz8-Oct-17 13:03
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz8-Oct-17 13:03 
GeneralWhy I picked (*)Other => Digital Ocean Pin
raddevus5-Oct-17 4:03
mvaraddevus5-Oct-17 4:03 
PraiseThis is one of those questions ... Pin
megaadam5-Oct-17 2:05
professionalmegaadam5-Oct-17 2:05 
General**Option Missing...what is 'Containerisation' ? Pin
koolprasad20033-Oct-17 2:35
professionalkoolprasad20033-Oct-17 2:35 
GeneralKubernetes Pin
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan2-Oct-17 11:27
professionalAfzaal Ahmad Zeeshan2-Oct-17 11:27 
GeneralWhy single select radio buttons for multiple choices? Pin
ergohack2-Oct-17 4:51
ergohack2-Oct-17 4:51 
GeneralRe: Why single select radio buttons for multiple choices? Pin
KarstenK2-Oct-17 5:34
mveKarstenK2-Oct-17 5:34 
GeneralRe: Why single select radio buttons for multiple choices? Pin
Marc Clifton2-Oct-17 8:24
mvaMarc Clifton2-Oct-17 8:24 
GeneralRe: Why single select radio buttons for multiple choices? Pin
Nish Nishant6-Oct-17 0:45
sitebuilderNish Nishant6-Oct-17 0:45 
GeneralContainerisation solves a bunch of headaches.... Pin
Marc Clifton2-Oct-17 0:42
mvaMarc Clifton2-Oct-17 0:42 
GeneralRe: Containerisation solves a bunch of headaches.... Pin
Slacker0072-Oct-17 1:39
professionalSlacker0072-Oct-17 1:39 
GeneralRe: Containerisation solves a bunch of headaches.... Pin
kalberts2-Oct-17 21:55
kalberts2-Oct-17 21:55 
Exactlty. Especially when the marketing guys (of the container technology, not of your company) proundly claims that "Oh, we have got a Windows version!" without telling you that you still need to be quite proficient to manage it, accept a lot of *nix'y solutions everyhwere, and it seems more like a way to telll you how great *nix is, rather than providing mechanisms with at least a remote trace of "native" feeling.

Several of the containerisation technologies that at first glance seems like a fairly simple way (as seen from the user, even though the internal workings may be complex) to solve one specific problem, that of isolating a function from its environment. But you soon realize (unless you belon to the priesthood, of course) that the "simple" solution really drags you into a complex infrastructure, new and unknown to you, that forces you to change everything, from file structures to build plans to software modularization.

Maybe that is a good thing, but noone said a word about that when they showed in that simple demo how easily a toy problem could be solved with minimal effort. And it isn't something that makes you analyze your needs and select the best solution: Rather, you are lured into mechanisms so complex and and encompassing that you quite soon are tied on your hands and feet and are forced to adopt the philosophies of the containerisation tool.

These tools are as much tools of dominance as tools for problem solution. Weapons for turf wars. Container technologies is the new kid on the block, but there are obvious similarities in e.g. how some languages force specific ways to organize the tools, how to update the tools, how to install them, how to distribute your code,... essentially, the language takes over essential parts of your file system management, tool management, source code management. It becomes sort of an operating system, more than a language.

So does containerisation: It not only isolates modules, it isolates you from your operating system, telling you "Forget that OS, do it our way instead!" That is a whole lot more than just isolating some critical functions. But they don't tell you in advance about all that you have to abandon. Or that the cost of continuing your "old ways" is so high that you cannot reasonably hold onto them, but are more or less forced to change your way of thinking to how they want you to think.
GeneralMissing option: Severless functions Pin
nmarcel1-Oct-17 19:45
nmarcel1-Oct-17 19:45 

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