[erlang-questions] Erlang and Docker

[Felix Gallo]

Erlang is already like a miniaturized operating system implementing
well-scheduled lightweight microservices, and releases (
http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/release_structure.html) are
already a redistributable, self-contained, minimizable unit of deployment
that can be monitored, inspected and logged using standard unix workflow.

In my opinion, the cost-benefit of using docker is highly questionable even
in its optimal use case, where the dev team is composed entirely of
inexperienced front end javascript developers trying to deploy monolithic
microservices and pretending they're being lightweight.  Maybe there's a
case to be made for tooling which takes languages with terrible
manageability and hides them behind something, but it's not at all clear
that docker is the answer to that or any other question.  It makes a
negative amount of sense to layer the highly ceremonial, unperformant,
problem-multiplying docker abstraction on top of an actually light, already
existing microservices architecture, and I wouldn't wish ownership of the
resulting mutant chimera on my worst enemy.  But again -- my personal
opinion.

F.

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Kevin Montuori <montuori@REDACTED> wrote:

> >>>>> "dg" == David Goehrig <dave@REDACTED> writes:
>
>     dg> At work, we've been deploying a wide range of Erlang apps on
>     dg> Docker.  I'm working on a blog post ( and presentation ) on how
>     dg> we manage our containers across multiple cloud providers.
>
> Hi David --
>
> I realize this is digging up a post from nearly six months ago but I'm
> wondering if this blog post materialized?  Or if anyone out there had
> new thoughts on distributed Erlang and Docker?
>
> Thanks!
> k.
>
>
> --
>   Kevin Montuori
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