Mr Gogala
If you review some of the previous postings isn’t it strange that there have
been more than one instance where you are on one side and most of the others,
including old timers of likes of Tanel and JL are on the other.
Even assuming if you are polite and right – and others are not, then it is
still time to evaluate why that happens and you bring out this kind of reaction
from others
And then what is the point of participating in a list where the discussion
tends to veer off from a technical discussion on the use of dockers, however
useless it may be to this pointless back and forth
Regards
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Subject: Re: Oracle 12c RAC in Docker
When you're the only one interpreting your response as "polite", then it's past
time to evaluate one's own actions objectively and unflinchingly.
In many respects, virtual machines are still a single-tenant approach to server
resources which is less efficient when all the services or resources aren't
needed, while containers represent a more efficient multi-tenant architecture.
The same rationale which has worked so well for SQL Server, Sybase, and MySQL
at the database level, which Oracle is joining with the multi-tenant option, is
the rationale behind Docker and LXC at the OS level.
In the case of RAC, containers meant for easy distribution are probably how
OPS/RAC should have been designed from the outset, and it is never too late to
try to retrofit.
On 8/29/16 16:02, Mladen Gogala wrote:
On 08/29/2016 05:41 PM, Tim Gorman wrote:
A simple "no, I have not" would have been a civil (though equally unnecessary)
response. "No, I don't know, so neither should you" would appear to have been
a more honest response.
Thanks for the lecture, but it is completely unnecessary, as most of the
condescending lectures usually are. Nevertheless, people seem to be compelled
to giving them anyway. My question was honest. Oracle RAC provides fault
tolerance and requires considerable resources like shared storage, two network
cards and several sets of IP addresses. Docker containers are lightweight
virtual machines meant for easy distribution. What would be the point of that?
The question is completely fair: what would such a configuration be used for?
There is a lot to found googling information about LXC and
Oracle<https://www.google.com/#q=lxc+oracle+12c>, including official product
pages, blog posts, presentations, and videos. Likewise, there are detailed
articles about Docker and Oracle<https://www.google.com/#q=docker+oracle+12c>
from Frits
Hoogland<https://fritshoogland.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/installing-the-oracle-database-in-docker/>
and Franck
Pachot<https://www.doag.org/formes/pubfiles/6939790/docs/Publikationen/DOAGNews/2015/03-2015/2015-03-News-Franck_Pachot-Data-virtualization-playing-with-Oracle-12c-on-Docker-containers-E.pdf>,
among others.
Is there anything specific you're seeking, or steps with which to get started?
I am not particularly interested in Docker yet. It is still not a mainstream
technology. I only politely asked what would be the point of putting RAC nodes
into Docker containers. For training purposes, virtual machines are more than
appropriate.
On 8/29/16 15:17, Mladen Gogala wrote:
On 08/29/2016 02:20 PM, Seth Miller wrote:
Has anyone attempted to get 12.1.0.2 RAC running in Docker or LXC yet?
Seth Miller
What would be the point of that?
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Mladen Gogala
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