Re:Google Launches Managed Service for Running Docker Apps o...
by wastedhours on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @05:01AM
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This is also what's holding me back from delving into Docker more. Love the concept, and the workflow, but trying to get my head around how the persistent data storage will work is still troubling me.
Docker could make most infrastructure-level "cloud" abstraction obsolete and let people run resilient, scalable clusters on hardware pretty easily. There's CoreOS, Kubernetes, and a few others in the app-instance-scheduling space, but right now, if you want persistent data storage of any kind (block, SQL, blob, whatever) then you still need to tie things down to an individual machine or use VM-level cloud technology to acheive some semblance of fault tolerance. The inability to do persistent storage in a reasonable way is, from where I sit, the main thing keeping Docker from eating the world.
When you can run Postgres in a stable/supported way in a container on my own hardware that gets scheduled around failure/crowding/etc, you no longer needs AWS, VMWare, etc. That could be huge.