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boycott 2015-12-14T11:01:34.000018Z

I struggle to get docker, I have always used just shell scripts (test locally using vagrant, push to openstack) until I came across Nix http://nixos.org/nix/

mccraigmccraig 2015-12-14T11:28:27.000019Z

@boycott: i like docker - it means i can separate the configuration of the compute services of a cluster from the configuration of the app components, and then deploy app components to cluster nodes using something like mesos (which i use) or kubernetes (which i haven't used)

boycott 2015-12-14T11:29:25.000020Z

I shall have to give it a try sometime

jaen 2015-12-14T12:34:09.000021Z

Docker is pretty cool. And if you were used to doing shellscripts creating a container with Dockerfile is basically this. And you can test your production environment more or less 1:1 locally before you commit to pushing the code.

jaen 2015-12-14T12:34:46.000022Z

If you like nix there was this - https://github.com/zefhemel/nix-docker - but it seems to be discontinued. But the idea seems legit so maybe it's worth looking into if someone created something similar.

boycott 2015-12-14T15:24:46.000024Z

vagrant, nix and docker, will have to investigate, thank you - I like to have as few moving parts as possible so it might be a step too far!