first of all, i am still trying to get a full understanding of docker, so please don't beat me up for the following!

 

during my readings i came across coreOS, which seems to be made for implementation with docker, small footprint etc... (https://coreos.com/using-coreos/docker/)

wouldn't something like that make more sense than a bloated ubuntu distro as basis for docker in unraid??

 

i will leave the yes, no, maybe to the specialists here in the forum. just thought i mention it, since there seems to be a lot of discussion about a suitable OS and the problems of different OS distros being used at the moment.

 

cheers, L

based on that a completely new question!

i was just sitting here with a friend listening to some music. he basically wanted to see the whole unraid thing first hand before going to build one, since he needs a storage solution as well.

 

while we went to all the 'stuff' and looked at it, i tried to explain the docker thing to the best of my abilities (pro's vs. the old plugins) he came with a very simple question i couldn't really answer at all 

 

why not having a 'base' system, where even docker is running as a container?

 

is that even possible, would there be any advantage to it? somehow it sounded logical at the moment he asked. on the other hand, if so - why didn't any of the 'cracks' here got that idea before!?

 

can anybody enlighten me about that?

 

cheers, L

coreos is a bare metal install to give users docker. you would not install it on top of unraid as it serves no purpose when unraid already gives you docker.

 

i.e. if you installed coreos in unraid you would still need the unraid docker under it and a basos over it ....l so you are worse of not better

 

Docker is a tricky concept to get your head around I recommend some googling and youtube video watching

coreos is a bare metal install to give users docker. you would not install it on top of unraid as it serves no purpose when unraid already gives you docker.

 

i.e. if you installed coreos in unraid you would still need the unraid docker under it and a basos over it ....l so you are worse of not better

 

Docker is a tricky concept to get your head around I recommend some googling and youtube video watching

 

thx NAS, that's what i am doing with most of my spare time at the moment to get a better (make that basic  ) understanding of it. while i google along and read stuff questions pop up. so thx again for clarifying this one for me.

would than bring me back to my friends question - would it make any sense (in applied use) what he was asking (my second post in this thread) - why not run a docker os and have unraid in it as a container as well. would that make any sense for practical application in the first place? as i said before, the question hit me out of nowhere... it seems to make some sense to me, but i guess if it really would somebody else would have thought about that before him!?

i hadd no problems with unraid yet in terms of stability etc. but i only run a vanilla unraid with only app/ docker container madsonic. would a os running everything (incl. unraid) may make sense if unraid for some reason crashes? if it would be a docker container, it would keep the rest of the server alive and other apps/ containers running, yes? i can see that some other apps would also stop functioning, if they depend on unraid, but it may keep torrent apps etc. alive - if they access a non-array hdd. i am wildly speculating here on my end, but i thought i bring that up - and see what you guys have to say about it. doesn't affect my operations one way or the other at this point, but i read to more than one post mentioning out-of-array hdd's etc.

 

cheers, L