Docker and the OCI container ecosystem

Posted Jul 27, 2022 18:07 UTC (Wed) by pj (subscriber, #4506)
Parent article: Docker and the OCI container ecosystem

Just wanted to say thanks for the great overview! I've seen the names of lots of these pieces fly by, it's good to know how they all relate to each other . Any chance you'll do a followup on orchestration systems? there's k8s and some various micro- and mini- self-hosted versions, and then there's docker swarm... are there others? which of those are suitable for production vs toy/exploring ? Maybe there's enough there for a followup ecosystem/survey article.

Docker and the OCI container ecosystem

Posted Jul 27, 2022 20:11 UTC (Wed) by jordan (subscriber, #110573) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks! A follow-up about orchestration could be interesting but I'd have to do a lot of research. I used to run Swarm but now I mostly deploy my own stuff with Compose and have thus far managed to avoid learning very much about Kubernetes :)

Docker and the OCI container ecosystem

Posted Jul 27, 2022 21:29 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I've used hand-written `.service` files for podman for some smaller deployments (though `podman-systemd-generator` is likely better long-term) and a larger one uses `podman-compose`[1] to generate its systemd units (since they collaborate, it helps to ensure they all share a common network and set of volumes).

K8s just seemed *way* overkill for the "I have a single machine and just want it to be easy to manage upgrades of containers and the base system".

[1] https://github.com/containers/podman-compose