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Shipping containers: Lessons learnt from adopting Docker

Kristian R. on August 03, 2017

We started dealing with Docker in Q3/2016 pursuing the goal of adopting it for an existing system infrastructure. By now we do have several product...
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Sergey Sarbash

Thank you for really interesting story.
I'm dealing too with Docker.
My experience is about five months. At this moment I'm in preparing for swarm mode.
We hugely use gitlab's CI for building/testing/dockerize but for deploy I use SaltStack. It is really nice system.

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Kristian R.

Thanks and good luck on your trip. Swarm is interesting but so far one of the features we don't yet need; right now we're slowly trying to move most of our (docker, non-docker) deployment procedure as well as overall VM standardization towards puppet which seems to make things run a bit more smoothly too. :)

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Ben Halpern

Really thorough writeup. Thanks for this.

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Kristian R.

Thanks Ben. Glad you liked it; reading through it the fourth or fifth time I wasn't sure whether these insights are all too obvious... ;)

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Ben Halpern

They might be obvious to some. But there's such a wide spread of what's obvious to whom. And containers tend to be not-very-obvious to many.