On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:09:35PM -0700, stan wrote: > > https://container-solutions.com/dynamic-management-real-ops-disruptor/ > What strikes me about this is that containers sound like static linking > on steroids. That's not entirely unfair. The important thing though is that these particular "steroids" enable a new way of systems management. > This seems like it would create a lot of redundancy on a > standalone system. Where do the storage savings come from? And the There's some redundancy, but common bits can be shared via layering. > container environment seems like it is a JIT compiler, to allow the > application access to computing resources in a standardized way through > an abstracted interface. That must have a cost in terms of execution > speed. In the case of Docker/OCI containers and similar, the common interface is "the Linux kernel". There is not a significant speed penalty. > Can a container created on Fedora with Fedora tools run in any host > environment that provides a container manager? For example, will a > Fedora container run on Windows, and vice versa? Assuming a new enough kernel, it's generally true that you can run containers from one distro on another. For example, CoreOS uses a Fedora-based container for systems management. Windows is a different story since it's ... not Linux ... but even that may change in the future with WSL. > Is the grand vision that everything is in the cloud, even for personal > computing? How is data security ensured? It seems that if things run > in the cloud, then at some point they are decrypted to get to the CPU, > and thus vulnerable. This is an orthogonal issue — you can certainly do all of this in your own data center if you like. (And I expect a lot of Fedora users will be using containers in this way.) But, speaking as a former sysadmin who has Seen Things, a well-managed public cloud enviroment (e.g. Amazon, GCE, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc.) is in a practical sense much less of a data security risk than running a local server room at any scale. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
