Subj : Re: MysticBBS in Docker
To   : Havok
From : Deon George
Date : Wed Aug 29 2018 01:48 am

ocker running on a Pi (or
x86), you could "docker pull" my Mystic BBS - and you would use it from the
point of installation completed, ready to configure and run.

Make sense?

....deon 

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Raspberry Pi/32)
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ith the analogy of a Live CD (are they still around?). IE: You
boot (almost any) PC with it, you have a working workspace (browser, word
processor, etc) - you can make changes. Like a Live CD - while you might
change from computer to computer - the experience is the same.

Also like a live CD - when you power it off, everything is lost (because CD's
are read only right?). So if you want to keep your data, you need to supply
an external storage medium (USB or hard drive). So if you take your Live CD
and your USB and put it in another PC, your experience is the same again.

Docker is like that. An application is built into an "image". You boot that
image - it might do something and when that image is stopped and destroyed,
any data that was with it is lost.

However, if you boot your "image" and give it a persistent storage device
(say from the host), you can then take that image (and th

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