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[Paulo Grácio <paulogracio@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have created a first version that can now be used to install dhis2 in a
very simple way. I would call it "DHIS2 in one click"
It's available on github at https://github.com/pgracio/dhis2-docker

@Bob Jolliffe, I have no experience with lxc providers so it's difficult
for me to compare, but Docker uses several features like:

Namespaces, to provide isolation,
Control Groups, to share/limit hardware resources,
Union File System, makes it light and fast,
libcontainer, defines container format.

@Aaron Gladders, please contribute with what you have, let's improve this
together :)

@All, please contribute with new ideas or use cases where you think Docker
can be useful.


Regards,
-- 
Paulo Grácio

On 14 February 2015 at 08:40, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Paulo
>
> I've given some thought to running dhis2 as a docker container but in the
> end reached the conclusion that lxc provides a much more straightforward
> container technology for running dhis2.
>
> So for example in Rwanda they run a number of lightweight lxc containers :
> one for the nginx proxy, one for the main hmis instance, one for
> miscellaneous other instances, one for a mysql database (not for dhis2),
> etc.  Everything based on ubuntu 14.04.
>
> Experience so far is that the containers run well,  are straightforward to
> manage and allow very flexible provisioning of cpus and ram.  Also they are
> extremely light because, like docker, they all make use of the same running
> kernel.
>
> I'd be interested to follow how you get on with docker images.  I am
> pretty sure creating a docker image for this, based on a generic tomcat
> image, will be very easy to do.  But dealing with configuration, access to
> log files etc to me just seemed more awkward than using lxc.   But please
> let us know how you get on.
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
> On 13 February 2015 at 23:27, Paulo Grácio <paulogracio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is anyone working on a Docker image(s) to create containers running
>> DHIS2? I'm starting doing some work on this subject, if you have any
>> thought about this let me know.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Paulo Grácio
>>
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