Fedora

Lokesh, the docker-io package maintainer at Fedora, does a damn good job at keeping it up to date. I think it’s a good time to see what changed over the last weeks in the Docker-Fedora world. Why Docker is still not available in Fedora? Simple answer There are some technical issues to overcome :) Longer answer The most important blocker is lack of AUFS support in the kernel (upstream as well as Fedora’s and RHEL’s). Alex Larsson is working on a replacement for AUFS using devicemapper. You can read more about this work in a nice blog post where Alex is covering this area. ...

In my previous blog post I introduced Docker and its Fedora integration. Now it’s time to do some serious (read: useful) stuff. A few years ago I started a project called CirrAS. It’s dead now, but the main idea behind it was to form a cluster of JBoss AS servers in the cloud, without any unnecessary steps. You just launched the instances, they found and connected to each other and the result was a working cluster. Additionally every cluster node registered itself in a front-end instance which worked as a load balancer and monitoring/management (we used RHQ) node. ...

For the last couple of days I have been playing with Docker. Docker is a project that helps you create images and run containers. This sounds like virtualization, but it isn’t. It uses Linux Containers (LXC) under the hood to do all the magic. What kind of magic? Read on. Linux Containers The first question you might ask is: how is Docker/LXC different from virtualization? ...

In April 2013 the JBoss Application Server rename to WildFly was announced at Devoxx. Since then the WildFly team made a couple of Alpha releases. They all start with version 8.0.0 to highlight the fact that WildFly is the successor of JBoss AS. Immediately after the first release of WildFly I’ve started to think about getting it into Fedora. A few days ago I finished upgrading all required components and finally packaged Alpha3 version of WildFly. It’s already available in Rawhide and in Fedora 20 updates-testing repository. ...

JBoss Application Server shipped in Fedora makes it easy to run it as a system service. So far you could launch only the standalone mode, there was no easy way to run it in the domain mode. This is going to change. If you’re not familiar with the operating modes, I highly recommend you reading the introduction to it. In short, in domain mode you can launch more than one server on one host easily. But this is not everything – you get a single entry point for management for all these instances. This means that you can deploy applications one all instances by just executing one command! ...