Author: Nigel Rantor Date: To: users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Docker, email, configuration and some rambling
On 02/02/2020 13:13, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Nigel,
>
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 01:05:41PM +0000, Nigel Rantor wrote:
>> Wondering if anyone has experience running docker on a VPS within BitFolk.
>> I'm not sure if there are any virtulisation limitations that would stop this
>> either.
>
> I don't know anything about Docker myself but I know that multiple
> BitFolk customers are using it. There's no issue using Docker (or
> any other kind of container that works using the Linux kernel's own
> containerisation features) on a Xen VM or any other kind of VM as
> far as I am aware.
Thanks, good to know.
>> I am going to be upgrading my machine to a more recent LTS version soonish
>> since my current distribution is going EOL this year.
>
> If we are talking Ubuntu here, do not try 20.04 yet. Obviously it's
> not released yet but I've heard there is an issue with LZ4
> compression and Xen.
Nope.
> And if not currently 64-bit, do switch to 64-bit.
