The sad state of web app deployment

Re:The sad state of web app deployment by wpietri on Friday September 18, 2015 @10:32AM (#10239390)

Yeah, from the point of view of a 70s university department minicomputer, Docker is another tool. A rapidly evolving one, one that has focused on developer adoption over other concerns. If you're using it to install just one thing on a server where you've installed many other things the old way, it's a pain.

When it gets interesting is when you invert the relationship, where you have multiple apps in Docker. Then the main server starts to look quite simple and bare, much easier to maintain. And then things like ECS start to make sense:

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

At that point, the OS becomes irrelevant except as a host for containers.

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Re:The sad state of web app deployment by tgaqw on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:56PM (#10240871)

The os should already be an irrelevant host for processes, if developers stopped with this dynamic linking and spreading files and configuration all over the os, instead of a simple contained directory with all it's dependencies and configuration except for the kernel. Like we did in the good old DOS days.

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