big data image _as docker containers_?

Sam Kottler s at shk.io
Wed Apr 30 16:15:41 UTC 2014


On 2014-04-30 21:59, Matthew Miller wrote:
> One more thing. :) And this one might be a little bit more out there, 
> but
> maybe worth considering. We've proposed making a cloud image tailored 
> for
> big data. Maybe, instead, we should produce _Docker_ images tailored 
> in that
> way, and suggest running those on our Fedora Atomic host.

I'm hesitant about doing a docker-only image for big data. The main 
reason is that a lot of the big-data applications (cassandra, hadoop, 
etc.) store large amounts of state on the node which seems less ideal to 
handle in docker than just a plain instance running atop a hypervisor.

>
> (Looking here at 
> https://github.com/scollier/Fedora-Dockerfiles/pull/29)



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