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

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Bob Koehler via Info-vax
> Sent: 03-Feb-16 1:19 PM
> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Cc: Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org>
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Container files are set to grow in importance
> on the IT road ahead
> 
> In article <cbc93d79-178b-4e09-8f3b-
> 7d2e91cb755e at googlegroups.com>, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com>
> writes:
> >
> > Could VSI perhaps one day distribute VMS + Application 'on a stick' so
> to s=
> > peak?
> 
>    Particularly usefull on OS where the vendor recommends each instance
>    only support one application.
> 
>    Not necessarily the right solution for all.
> 

Could be very nice solution for distributing pre-configured OS instances
such as hobby and/or dev environments i.e. with long list of open source
and dev prod's + latest patches installed and ready to go.. would only need 
to tweak the OS instance specific info e.g. tcpip, licenses, etc.

Many Cust's create "gold" disks or their customized release specific OS 
images for much faster rollouts. This is also similar to how large VMware 
shops deploy new images. They do not deploy base images of Windows
or Linux then do patches / custom info. They simply deploy the latest gold
OS instance image of that particular environment.

Case in point - I spent most of a week downloading, installing / customizing 
dev and open source prod's on a new env .. would have been great to simply 
download a single LD file, then do a backup to my local disk.  Downloaded OS 
image could be setup with modparams updates, sysuaf quotas updated for 
specific accounts, latest Java installed etc .. 

There are always some issues with gold disks, but they do have loads of
value in larger shops.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com