[clug] Docker Introduction

[Brenton Ross]

I would be interested.

I am in the process of setting up a nest of virtual machines at the
moment.
I would probably have used containers except that I want this up and
running ASAP and did not want to go through yet another learning curve.

Brenton

On Sun, 2019-06-30 at 07:35 +1000, George at Clug via linux wrote:
> Brad,
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> " an intro to docker"  - that would be interesting. Please make it
> practical starting from installing Docker and setting up the
> environment. Use CentOS if you want as most commercial systems use Red
> Hat. I have tried to follow a number of "intros" but they seem to jump
> though things way too fast for people not used to docker. Maybe I
> could test out your "intro" for you once you have it together?
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> Anyone else Interested?
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> George.
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> On Sunday, 30-06-2019 at 07:19 Brad Marshall wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> On Sat, 29 Jun. 2019, 21:33 George at Clug via linux, 
> 	*  wrote:
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>  But I guess there are things you cannot easily use containers for? If
> it were possible I would love to see a demo (that I can follow along
> with) on how to containerise a Minecraft server. But I don't think a
> Minecraft server is written to be containerised.
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> You don't need to write a server to be containerised, its just a
> restricted set of processes.  You expose services on a port by port
> basis.  There are some things you have to account for, but you can
> mostly run anything you want.
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> I might start writing an intro to docker talk and see how it goes,
> Steve will have to bug me for a timeframe.
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> Thanks,
> Brad
>