Docker

Today I created my first Docker image. I’m really interested in Docker as a technology and I feel this should be one main route in virtualization field. The use of Docker is so easy and elegant that I wonder why it hasn’t existed for longer time. There still is big hype around Docker, especially now when they get $40M funding. With this Docker will become huge company. Anyway I wanted to create some docker image for practice and bumped into Bob, signal-processing and machine-learning toolbox that I was describing in one of my previous articles. I had a problem then with compatibilty. Bob runs only under Ubuntu, Mac OSX and Arch Linux. I am happy Fedora user and didn’t want to install Ubuntu. Luckily developers offered a solution for this situation: Virtual Machine. On the other hand it is VM in VirtualBox which is under Oracle and run demanding computation in VM with limited memory isn’t the kind of performance I was looking for. We fortunately got access to school server then, but the problem with other platforms still remains. ...