[dba-Tech] Containers and Windows

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Arthur:

Containers are definitely the way of the future but of course there are some cautionary notes. (I posted all that information sometime before and if you are interested I will re-post it.)

Actually KVM  (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) capabilities have been around since UNIX days and have been a feature in Linux since somewhere are 1995...twenty years ago. What do you think all the virtual products like VirtualBox, VMWare and Hyper-V are built on and why none of them are patented? It just took the downstream market a very long time to grasp the concepts but now its here. If you are thinking of making your own Container instances maybe you can look at Docker.

As for Windows 10...you know my feeling on that product... Word of warning, handle with care as according to Microsoft's licencing agreement with you, everything on your computer is now public property. You are even allowed to encrypt anything you want but they keep a copy of the keys. I use Windows10 but it is carefully sandboxed in it own virtual and it will remain there until it can be properly de-clawed and tamed.

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 4:29:05 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Containers and Windows

In case you haven't noticed, Containers are all the rage in virtualization
now, and for good reason. Traditional Virtual Machines emulate an entire
machine, including its OS, which is a lot of overhead. Containers
virtualize apps and services, leaving out the OS files, so the result is a
much smaller footprint. Microsoft id mobing to Containers in its next
releases of SQL Server and Windows Server. Azure CTO Mark Russinovich has a
blog
<http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/17/containers-docker-windows-and-trends/>
about it, for those interested. As for me, since I began using various VM
technologies like Oracle VirtualBox, I've always wondered why VM technology
didn't work this way. But now I realize they are solutions to different
problems. My main box rus WIndows 10, and has VMs for Windows 7 and 8.1.
Containers on the other hand would all use the same base OS, isolating the
apps instead. Not only that, but they can be clustered across machines.
Exciting times!

-- 
Arthur
_______________________________________________
dba-Tech mailing list
dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com
http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech
Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com