[nycbug-talk] Jail Performance

[Pete Wright]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:01:22PM -0500, Louis Bertrand wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Pete Wright wrote:
> 
> > Hey nycbugers,
> > 	I've been kicking around some ideas regarding jailing
> > in an "enterprise" environment.  While jails do have the obvious
> > benefit of added security; one thing that interests me are the
> > possibilities of using jails to assist with server and app.
> > management in distrubited envrionments.  The basic idea I am
> > thinking of is creating jails for specific applications that
> > get loaded to a farm of servers via PXE-TFTP.  One would netboot
> > a server, and then dist a jail to that system after boot.  Seems
> > simple enough...but what about performance.  Has anyone noticed
> > any significant performance bottlenecks w/in jails.  I would not
> > expect any, and have not seen any either.  But maybe there is
> > something I'm missing?
> >
> 
> Just a quick thought, and note that I really have no idea what I'm
> talking aobut, but didn't you just describe IBM's VM operating
> system for mainframes?  I think they run multiple independent
> instances of Linux, each in its own virtual machine (hence the name).
> 
yes it is sorta similar to partitioning hardware on IBM or Sun gear,
altho what I was thinking about was having a central repository of 
system images, bundled with a specific app (say an apache tomcat
server) that can be distributed to a group a machines.  The idea is 
to make administration easier and allow more flexibility on how one
can provision a group of servers.

-p

> Ciao
>  --Louis  <louis at bertrandtech dot ca>
> 
> 
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