big data image _as docker containers_?

Matthew Farrellee matt at redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 18:03:42 UTC 2014


pile on!

big data applications are generally scale-out, which is currently not 
easy to do w/ docker images.

best,


matt

On 04/30/2014 12:33 PM, Julien Eid wrote:
> I also am hesitant about a big-data docker image as I don't know how
> much interest there is to use docker for big data application.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Sam Kottler <s at shk.io
> <mailto:s at shk.io>> wrote:
>
>     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
>         <https://github.com/scollier/Fedora-Dockerfiles/pull/29>)
>
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