[Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead

[David Froble]

IanD wrote:
> Container files are set to grow in importance on the IT road ahead it would seem...
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> http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/application-containers-gain-traction-among-it-pros.html
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> VMS has a poor man's equivalent in LD but perhaps it could form the base of extending into something like Docker?
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> I know docker is one of the research areas VSI was looking at and for good reason it would seem
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> Anyhow, the market is speaking, or so the article suggests
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> Virtualisation of whole systems and the growing VM sprawl are starting to cause some companies headaches. I know where I work, the amount of systems coming under VMware for example is growing rapidly and the management headache for administering 1000's of servers is growing
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> Could VSI perhaps one day distribute VMS + Application 'on a stick' so to speak?

Actually, I'd think "no, they cannot".  Ok, why?  They are working on an OS, not 
any applications.  Applications are a whole different thing from an OS.  So, who 
might do what you ask?  It would be the entity providing the application, 
perhaps with help from VSI.  VSI could provide some of the tools and 
infrastructure for doing such.  But not the applications.

> Fully self contained OS + Application, all configured and ready to run, selectable as a download via a click and pay interface and deployed on a server near you (free set of steak knives included!)
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> How to deploy a cluster in this type of set-up I wonder? Rolled up containers of containers perhaps? Will we need a cluster manager application sitting above it all?