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Re:Weave is kinda slow by mdekkers on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:11AM (#9504205)
I REALLY wish that Clocker would support (and document how to use) something besides Weave - weave is intolerably slow for anything that requires some kind of more serious throughput between nodes. It is very, very unfortunate Clocker doesn't document how to not use Weave (for example, simply use whatever is already in place) as the rest of Clocker rocks, and the seemingly hard dependency on Weave makes it un-deployable for serious production use.

I did pop into their IRc channel a few times with a question around this, but over the space of 3 days all activity on the IRC channel was tumbleweed and crickets..

Re:Weave is kinda slow by grkvlt on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:28AM (#9504268)
The latest version of Clocker does support Calico as well, now! But I agree there isn't much in the way of documentation on how to change this. I updated the README and the main page at http://clocker.io/ to reflect the changes in Clocker 0.8.1 but it's not immediately obvious. Try this:

    ./bin/clocker.sh jclouds:provider:region calico
Re:Weave is kinda slow by mdekkers on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:38AM (#9504312)
that's great, thanks for answering! I have not yet looked at Calico - I have OVS-VXLAN between my worker nodes, which is a simple solution that works great. Is it possible to say "use whatever is already in place"?
Re:Weave is kinda slow by grkvlt on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:50AM (#9504376)
It may be possible by writing a slightly modified YAML file for the Clocker blueprint itself. To avoid dragging this thread further off-topic, please drop me a line at the email address in my profile, and I can probably help you.
Re:Weave is kinda slow by mdekkers on Thursday May 07, 2015 @01:05PM (#9506577)
awesome, thanks!!
Re:Weave is kinda slow by weavenetwork on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:14AM (#9504223)
What throughput do you need, on a per-host basis?
Re:Weave is kinda slow by mdekkers on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:46AM (#9504351)
about 8Gbits/sec
Re:Weave is kinda slow by techdragon on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:36AM (#9504908)
Wow. Is that a full 8Gbit/sec of data per host or a logical 8Gbit/sec of raw frames?

Either way, you're an ideal candidate for closed beta access to the performance focused container networking tools my startup is developing. I can contact you via email if you're interested.

Re:Weave is kinda slow by mdekkers on Thursday May 07, 2015 @01:05PM (#9506572)
happy to have a chat - mdekkers at cynaptic dot eu
Re:Weave is kinda slow by weavenetwork on Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:07AM (#9504452)
cripes.

on each host? what kind of physical network are you using, and how many containers per host? how many hosts? let me know if I should email about this instead.