Does it make sense for me to convert my server to an Atomic Host ?

[Philip Rhoades]

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.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil(a)pricom.com.au

[Dusty Mabe]

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

[Matthew Miller]

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.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader