The Ease of Containers

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The Ease of Containers

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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March 10, 2021 at 12:00 am

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ktflash Default port Points: 1400 More actions · Answer 1

Now wheres the container that allows me to work on a project until its finished without having to deal with 6 other projects on the side.

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David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 75999 More actions · Answer 2

We build a container of our data warehouse containing a subset of data which all developers can use for data engineering work.

It means that they can work on their local workstation rather than trip over each other on a shared database.

I have a PostGres container that I use for my development work. It uses docker mounts so even when the container is destroyed the data remains. The next time I spin up the container all my data is there.

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Doctor Who 2 SSCrazy Eights Points: 8194 More actions · Answer 3

ktflash wrote:

Now wheres the container that allows me to work on a project until its finished without having to deal with 6 other projects on the side.

Yeah, give me one of those.

Rod

Doctor Who 2 SSCrazy Eights Points: 8194 More actions · Answer 4

I don't think I've known about containers for as long as you have, Steve. They intrigue me and I can see their usefulness. But I've gotten the impression that they are only for Linux. Since I primarily do development in Windows, that's limits me. Or, am I wrong about containers only being for Linux?

Rod

larry.blake SSC Enthusiast Points: 186 More actions · Answer 5

Rod, you're right that containers have a largely Linux following and that Docker (for example) works better there. There are Windows containers. I know people who have installed Docker on Windows PCs, making the PCs unusable. So, experiment with a machine that you don't mind rebuilding if necessary.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736150 More actions · Answer 6

Windows Containers - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/

Client applications in containers: https://go.turbo.net/

The latter could be interesting, Rob, if your org wanted to modernize, but keep older apps running.

Doctor Who 2 SSCrazy Eights Points: 8194 More actions · Answer 7

larry.blake wrote:

Rod, you're right that containers have a largely Linux following and that Docker (for example) works better there. There are Windows containers. I know people who have installed Docker on Windows PCs, making the PCs unusable. So, experiment with a machine that you don't mind rebuilding if necessary.

Yikes! Thank you for the warning.

Rod

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

Windows Containers - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/
Client applications in containers: https://go.turbo.net/
The latter could be interesting, Rob, if your org wanted to modernize, but keep older apps running.

Thank you, Steve. Gotta play with some of these.

Rod