I guess to answer at least one part of your question on whether it's "encouraged" or not: it depends on what you want to do with it.
I can't speak for the support side of things but on the engineering side anyway we're using Docker containers fairly happily to do things like create ephemeral clusters for doing adhoc testing. It makes for a very nice way to run a small cluster on a laptop or on a Mesos slave in a Jenkins build with very similar expectations (I won't say identical because networking issues can rear their head). I created images based on the latest TS and KV packages. There are docs in the READMEs: https://hub.docker.com/r/basho/riak-ts/ https://hub.docker.com/r/basho/riak-kv/ Running a production Riak cluster, however, raises some concerns that I'm pretty sure no one really has a good handle on. Networking issues can become difficult unless you use something like Weave. Volumes could also be an issue. docker-compose and Docker Swarm should help with some of this but we don't have any docs that demonstrate how to use them. I'd say we also don't have a comprehensive picture of performance characteristics of running a Dockerized Riak cluster since there's several moving parts to consider. We need to investigate bridged vs host networking mode and using different volume drivers, etc... There is some valid concern that the key reasons you'd want to use Riak to begin with are somewhat ameliorated by a Docker container's ephemeral nature; e.g. it's really easy to kill off containers which might lead to accidental data loss. jb On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:47 PM Adam Winter <awin...@pillartechnology.com> wrote: > Is a Docker-based deployment of Riak officially supported by Basho and > encouraged? > > I see articles of how to configure Riak to run in Docker images, but no > explicit mention of it within the list of supported platforms. > > > Adam Winter > 614-446-9033 > Delivery Lead > Pillar Technology Group, LLC > awin...@pillartechnology.com > > Interact with me on: > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwinter> | Twitter > <http://www.twitter.com/AdamWinter> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >
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