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So We've Had a Few Problems with Docker in Production

15 points by zbobet2012 ↗ HN
And by a few, I mean 4 bugs in a month that would wipe out an entire cluster but leave Kube thinking it was up. We issued dumpster fire awards for those of us who spent weeks troubleshooting and fixing them. After all, a dumpster is a container.

http://i.imgur.com/i66FpAZ.jpg

Relevant:

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22502

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/28518

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/28889

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/26492

Anyone else got some docker war stories?

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jtchang
We are running docker as well and I have setup a few clients on it. Haven't run into the ones you have but appreciate the effort you guys are making to make it more production ready and stable :)
probinso
The more that I played with the docker, the more I realized that its use cases are far more limited than people will advertise. Several project leads that I've worked with knew what doctor was based on the description on its website, or some product review blog.

The majority of my time spent assessing dockers viability, was in convincing my bosses that this product did not solve the problems they were trying to address.