[Info-ingres] Ingres Image for Cloud Deployment ?

[Jean-Pierre Zuate]

Hi Roy (and others),

Docker is more light than a VM, and permit to be "infrstructure as code".

As far as my years of Senior Consultant for Ingres @ Computer
Associates learn me something, when someone install something on your VM,
or he create a well tunned script, and/or a reliable documentation on it,
or you record all his tasks.

- The same configuration in a Dockerfile mean all is in the same file.
- You can not easily send me your VM by email, while you can send me a
Dockerfile.
- It take about minutes to set a complete stack of something on Docker vs
hours install the same on a VM.
- Reading a Dockerfile or a docker-compose file is very easy for anyone
have a Linux background.
- Thoses files ensure you have exactly the same configuration between
environments.
- In a Dockerfile you can fix for ever the entire Ingres compilation
process : great way to make others discover and use it...
- And the last argument is in a very near future (not to say now) admins
and IT specialists who will have avoided thoses technologies and concept
will be considered as prehistoric ;-)

Take a look of Nana Chanel on Youtube :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdngmbVKX1Tgre699-XLlUA.

Short videos, very clear (simple is beautiful they said now ;-))

I take a look on Actian site and even if they talk about Community edition
of Ingres I wasn't able to find one.

Is Ingres still open source ? If yes, where I can download something ?

Kinds regards,
--
Jean-Pierre Zuate

Le jeu. 27 févr. 2020 à 12:35, Roy Hann <specially at processed.almost.meat> a
écrit :

> 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
>
>
>
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