Subj : Re: Move .ini files from /sbbs/exec to /sbbs/ctrl
To   : Tracker1
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Sep 27 2022 07:33 am

-=> Tracker1 wrote to Gamgee <=-

 >> Most docker-friendly applications will take a handful of
 >> environment variables for configuration, leaving only data to
 >> deal with.  In this way, you can run a database server only
 >> mounting /data ... while literally everything else can be
 >> read-only file system.
 >>
 >> This means that security holes that would require disk write are
 >> largely mitigated.  It also means you can upgrade to the new
 >> version, just by running against the new version image.  No
 >> downloads, installing prerequisites, building anything... just
 >> *run*.

 > I can see how that would work, and that it would be nice in some
 > abstract way.  It's just that.... I don't do anything like that,
 > and honestly don't even know anybody who does things like that.
 > So... in practice... it's a very limited scope audience who would
 > care about something like that.  Very.

 Tr> Not sure how limited it is in practice... look on job boards for
 Tr> Kubernetes and you'll see *MANY* using it.  The core of almost
 Tr> everything I've done that past 4 years is deployed in
 Tr> Docker/Kubernetes... and there are distributed databases that
 Tr> thrive under that model (CockroachDB, Cassandra, etc).  So YMMV
 Tr> of course.

 Tr> For example on LinkedIn jobs, Kubernetes has 83,244 active
 Tr> results for just the US.

 Tr> https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?keywords=kubernetes

Perhaps I should have clarified my statement better...  Perhaps D/K is 
an important thing for those who work in IT for a living.  I'll take 
your word for it.  I guess my point is that that is still a small amount 
of the workforce overall.  It's orders of magnitude smaller when you 
consider the BBS/hobbyist computer users who may be reading this...  ;-)



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