Re:Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
by zrail on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:00AM
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1) We've talked about it but it's not a blocker so we haven't done it yet. Right now we're trying to reduce the number of layers we ship, since they seem to get big for no good reason.
2) We're using a private Docker Hub account to transfer images to the laptops. They have a script that the users can invoke that shuts down the container, updates, runs some initialization tasks (`db:migrate` + some other stuff) and then brings the container back up.
3) Yep, we're using mounted shared directories in both cases. Previously the laptops of course just stored everything on the local filesystem since they were running the app directly. I'm not 100% sure what the Windows server was doing, but I believe the operator had to move data from one share to another and run initialization tasks by hand.
2) We're using a private Docker Hub account to transfer images to the laptops. They have a script that the users can invoke that shuts down the container, updates, runs some initialization tasks (`db:migrate` + some other stuff) and then brings the container back up.
3) Yep, we're using mounted shared directories in both cases. Previously the laptops of course just stored everything on the local filesystem since they were running the app directly. I'm not 100% sure what the Windows server was doing, but I believe the operator had to move data from one share to another and run initialization tasks by hand.