Containerize dovecot?

[William Edwards]

I think the general concensus is that containerisation isn't always 
better than 'normal' VMs. 'Easy deployment & scaling' is also perfectly 
possible without containers.

MRob schreef op 2021-08-25 00:01:
> Thank to other responses with links that i'll learning from! Thanks
> you very much
> 
> On 2021-08-24 00:35, Marc wrote:
>> What are you trying to achieve with containerizing?
> 
> hmm, easy deployment & scaling? also reslient against hardware crashes, 
> etc.
> 
>> You have to take into account that your
>> storage is persistant,
> 
> Have you see what challenge this poses? Love to hear your opinion
> about it. Maybe this is where using object-storage backend becomes
> more powerful solution?
> 
>> you have to take into account getting something
>> like proxy to redirect traffic etc etc.
> 
> Yes I thought also proxy/director also become containerized. You said
> this for teaching a certain point?
> 
>> If you want to
>> deploy the container on a orchestrator so it is going to be
>> (re)started on a random hosts.
> 
> you mention so because all hosts must be connected to same storage?
> 
>> I managed to get this to work
>> via alpine linux (nice small), but I think I am going back to vm.
> 
> what reasons? what kind of vm do you use?
> 
> 
>>> 
>>> Hello, anyone here has containerized dovecot? Can I ask general 
>>> advice
>>> and experience please? are there any recommended articles/tutorial 
>>> for
>>> containerize deploymnt and auto-scaling? Thank you.

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With kind regards,

William Edwards