[dba-Tech] Linux download managers

[Jim Lawrence]

Arthur:

To be honest I am not up to speed in assembling containers...yet. I tentatively, have a two day online course arranged for mid-September. OTOH, there seems to be just about a container for everything that anyone can just download.

If, in your research you discover some excellent containers let me know as I would definitely love to take one apart and see how it was and what was assembled. I know Microsoft is going to great length to be able to leverage their own products within Linux containers.

As I understand it you can actually link or federate containers with means that an application can exist in on container and have the data in another. These linked containers can reside on different servers and can be securely connected via an SSL pipe using OpenVPN (another containers). 
 
Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 4:19:00 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Linux download managers

Jim,

Me too (apt-get). As to containers, I've run a few, created by other people
not me, and I love the idea. I've never built one, though. Have you?

Suppose I wanted to create a container housing an Access app and including
Access RunTime in it. Suppose further that said app needed a couple of DLLs
not normally included in RunTime. Suppose further that said app needs a
database hosted on, say, SQL Express or MySQL or MariaDB or SQLite. How
does one assemble the pieces into a container?

Arthur

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> When it comes to Debian and all its many distros, I am a traditionalist...
> apt-get :-)
>
> It wouldn't be long before we are using containers and snap
> packages...fully self-contained modules that will run on any OS and in any
> version. It will take all the challenge out of deploying applications....no
> more searching for dependences, custom libraries, correct sets,
> configuration files with make and compile operations. ;-)
>
> Jim
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