People,
I have a F25 64bit server - it is mainly used to run Qmail and EZMLM but also has a couple of trivial web sites on it. I am thinking of moving about a dozen small Rails and Jekyll websites off Digital Ocean and back on to this server. Should I do a clean, bare-metal install of Fedora Atomic Host onto this server, convert the Qmail + EZMLM services into a Docker image to run on this new FPA server and then move all my DO web sites on to this new FPA as Docker images as well?
Thanks,
Phil.
On 01/22/2017 07:33 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I have a F25 64bit server - it is mainly used to run Qmail and EZMLM but also has a couple of trivial web sites on it. I am thinking of moving about a dozen small Rails and Jekyll websites off Digital Ocean and back on to this server. Should I do a clean, bare-metal install of Fedora Atomic Host onto this server, convert the Qmail + EZMLM services into a Docker image to run on this new FPA server and then move all my DO web sites on to this new FPA as Docker images as well?
Hey Philip,
It would be great if you used Atomic Host. Since your applications aren't containerized yet it would be more work on you for, but I'd love for you to try it out and let us know what worked well, what didn't work well, etc..
Join us in #fedora-cloud or in #atomic on Freenode and ask questions along the way.
Dusty
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:33:33AM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
I have a F25 64bit server - it is mainly used to run Qmail and EZMLM but also has a couple of trivial web sites on it. I am thinking of moving about a dozen small Rails and Jekyll websites off Digital Ocean and back on to this server. Should I do a clean, bare-metal install of Fedora Atomic Host onto this server, convert the Qmail + EZMLM services into a Docker image to run on this new FPA server and then move all my DO web sites on to this new FPA as Docker images as well?
I think it very well might. However, do note that you'll likely be rebooting this system more than you would a traditional server, because that's required to install any bugfix or security updates on the host itself. That means it really works best when you have a small cluster with failover, or else don't mind a few minutes of downtime here and there.
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