[Info-ingres] Ingres Image for Cloud Deployment ?

[Roy Hann]

benjamin.orman at gmail.com wrote:

> Le mercredi 26 février 2020 12:16:56 UTC+1, Roy Hann a écrit :
>> benjamin.orman at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> > As anyone already tried to Deploy an Ingres Database on a cloud provider
>> > using Docker Image for exemple ?
>> > 
>> > I found an old Topic on Actian forum but every links seems dead
>> > 
>> > https://communities.actian.com/s/question/0D53300003kmPHSCA2/docker-meets-ingres-101-ingres-in-a-docker-container
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I'm wondering if it's a viable solution or if when migrating to a cloud
>> > deployement, It's better to also change the database solution
>> 
>> The link you quote is working fine for me. Dunno what might be up with
>> that.
>> 
>> This might be of some use (even though it refers to Vector):
>> https://github.com/ActianCorp/Vector-Community-Docker
>> 
>> If you don't actually need Docker but just want to put Ingres into some
>> kind of cloud environment I've installed it on AWS instances
>> (Windows and Linux) with no issues at all.
>
> the main objective would be to remove our old OnPrem servers and have all 
> of our infra on cloud Env. I thought of Docker image to only have a
> Database instance that only fullfill that role but I'm not sure that 
> it's doable.

I don't use Docker. I have not encountered any use cases where it seemed
appropriate. My (admittedly uninformed) impression is that Docker is
sofa-surfing for software. 

Serious question: how does putting Ingres (or any other enterprise
service) in a container make it better? Why is a dedicated VM in the
cloud inferior? Note that I am asking about enterprise services. I
can think of all kinds of apps where Docker makes sense.

If anyone can answer I would learn a lot I think.

All that said, I am sure Ingres can be packaged in a Docker container
if you are convinced it is the way to go. 

Roy