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Discussion on: I work with Containers, Automation and Cloud Stacks for up to 10 years now, ask me anything

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Renan Zulian

Ok let's try an reverse engineering 😂

Which applications you wouldn't recommend to use containers?

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Raphael Habereder • Edited

That's a great one!

There are a few things that aren't fun when using containers.

Huge Images, old WebLogics for example. It's not really fun to download an 8GB+ Image. If you scale it on a PaaS, you can probably say bye bye to your disk space :D
We had a lot of fun when we found out that a single developer filled our SSD-SAN with an innocent looking scale-command.

Another amusing thing was a javafx desktop-app, someone thought "would be a great idea to deploy".
You can actually do that with SSH and X11 forwarding, or something like VNC. But the simplest one that we figured out was to share the X11 socket with the container and use it directly.
That was an absolute nightmare, so I would probably say "if it needs a graphics subsystem, don't"