RE: Containerize dovecot?

2021-10-12 Thread Marc
> > MRob wrote: > > Hello, anyone here has containerized dovecot? Can I ask general advice > > and experience please? are there any recommended articles/tutorial for > > containerize deploymnt and auto-scaling? Thank you. > I made a start where the container would use distributed storage, so you

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-10-12 Thread David Favor
MRob wrote: Hello, anyone here has containerized dovecot? Can I ask general advice and experience please? are there any recommended articles/tutorial for containerize deploymnt and auto-scaling? Thank you. Fairly straight forward. Use LXD running either Ubuntu or Alpine as the Distro. You ca

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-09-02 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
On 8/24/21 6:46 PM, William Edwards wrote: I think the general concensus is that containerisation isn't always better than 'normal' VMs. 'Easy deployment & scaling' is also perfectly possible without containers. Without a doubt VMs are a good solution. Containers use some of the same techn

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 2021-08-24 09:13, schrieb MRob: Hello, anyone here has containerized dovecot? Can I ask general advice and experience please? are there any recommended articles/tutorial for containerize deploymnt and auto-scaling? Thank you. Yes, Mailcow contains Dovecot. And Mailcow has been dockerized. h

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-25 Thread Laura Smith
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 at 11:46 PM, William Edwards wrote: > I think the general concensus is that containerisation isn't always > > better than 'normal' VMs. 'Easy deployment & scaling' is also perfectly > > possible without containers. > Amen to that

RE: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-25 Thread Marc
> > I've had a few discussions with clients who are dead-set on running a > docker this, or a snap that, or whatever container they just read about. > But they want to run it on a VM in the cloud. To me it seems weird. To anyone with a brain this is weird ;) If you have remote cloud, they are a

RE: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-25 Thread Marc
> > What are you trying to achieve with containerizing? > > hmm, easy deployment & scaling? also reslient against hardware crashes, > etc. Forget about easy. You have a vm up and running more quickly. Scaling is a problem because somehow you have to add storage (which is easy) but what then, ho

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-25 Thread Plutocrat
On 25/08/2021 06.46, William Edwards wrote: I think the general concensus is that containerisation isn't always better than 'normal' VMs. 'Easy deployment & scaling' is also perfectly possible without containers. I've had a few discussions with clients who are dead-set on running a docker th

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-24 Thread William Edwards
I think the general concensus is that containerisation isn't always better than 'normal' VMs. 'Easy deployment & scaling' is also perfectly possible without containers. MRob schreef op 2021-08-25 00:01: Thank to other responses with links that i'll learning from! Thanks you very much On 2021-

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-24 Thread MRob
Thank to other responses with links that i'll learning from! Thanks you very much On 2021-08-24 00:35, Marc wrote: What are you trying to achieve with containerizing? hmm, easy deployment & scaling? also reslient against hardware crashes, etc. You have to take into account that your stora

Re: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-24 Thread Ralf Becker
Hi Rob, Am 24.08.21 um 09:13 schrieb MRob: Hello, anyone here has containerized dovecot? Can I ask general advice and experience please? are there any recommended articles/tutorial for containerize deploymnt and auto-scaling? Thank you. We (www.egroupware.org) run Dovecot only containerized:

RE: Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-24 Thread Marc
traffic etc etc. I managed to get this to work via alpine linux (nice small), but I think I am going back to vm. > -Original Message- > From: dovecot On Behalf Of MRob > Sent: Tuesday, 24 August 2021 09:13 > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: Containerize dovecot? > &g

Containerize dovecot?

2021-08-24 Thread MRob
Hello, anyone here has containerized dovecot? Can I ask general advice and experience please? are there any recommended articles/tutorial for containerize deploymnt and auto-scaling? Thank you.