I guess I would have to ask a few questions of the developer considering docker... WHY do you need to be outside of a self-contained directory? Are you installing things that spray files all over the filesystem? Are you breaking system-level library dependencies? Great, but then how do you patch for critical vulns? There are most likely not going to be good answers in most cases. A correct answer may be, "We are distributing a pre-configured database server and apache configuration with correctly permissioned application code."
Please don't get me wrong here; I'm excited about Docker. But I see people using it to push problems up or down the stack in non-productive ways. Researchers do not want to be sysadmins, and if they do, they aren't publishing. Cheers. On 01:30PM Wed 01/28/15 -0500, Jason Riedy wrote: > And Gavin W. Burris writes: > > Sure, distribute your container, but also consider writing code > > that can be compiled easily in a self-contained directory like a > > home directory. > > That ship sailed long ago and isn't coming back. > > "All the world is your laptop" is pretty much how it is for current > students who become the next developers. Letting people emulate > their laptop sufficiently well on a cluster will help quite a few > non-CS users. > > Even for CS-ish users, home directory servers cannot support > undergrad student numbers at current available funding levels, there > are no central computing labs where people access them, etc. > Students really aren't even exposed to shared home-directory style > filesystems short of data dumping places equivalent to Dropbox. > Installing into the home directory no longer occurs to people who > own the entire file system. > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Gavin W. Burris Senior Project Leader for Research Computing The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
