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RE: Calibrae Day 2 Progress Report
How does this differ from just using docker, which I'm fairly familiar with? You can do that with docker right?
I've been using https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker and love it. You can run one or multiple processes, and scheduled stuff. It's a PC in a docker container, and very widely supported by VPS providers, for really simple deployment.
I'm running the same docker container on my laptop, and when I make change, just replace the docker image on the remote machine, it saves state, it's great!
Am I missing some point?
https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/5eptm9/are_docker_containers_cross_platform_or_no/
Docker also lets you run on any x86-64 system as well. I will be for sure updating and uploading a docker to the docker hub also, so it can be as easy as docker run calibrae-project/calibrd. The docker can be thus built on ubuntu 14.04, same as the appimage, and run on any linux, or within a docker.
There has recently been a privilege escalation exploit that can let the code escape from the container though - https://threatpost.com/docker-patches-container-escape-vulnerability/123161/ but since this project won't involve running arbitrary code, it should not be a problem. However, the appimage version will not have this problem run outside a container.
So it will be entirely arbitray, up to the operator how to deal with this.
Thanks - I didn't hear about that docker exploit, that's bad for bare-metal docker providers I guess, but won't affect most people who would use VPS or their own PCs.
I see, as long as there will remain a docker container, and preferably an easier to use one. It should not be anything like as difficult to set up a witness as it currently seems!
It absolutely should not! It should be just fill in a form, point, and shoot. Bam. Target destroyed!
I will be also making this feature too, thanks for making me think of it, it is very very easy to add this feature, a form to build the steemd configuration automatically. We can then also use a central repository of all available seed nodes on the network to automatically fill this important information as well.
A little note to @sneak, @ned, vandenberg, et al, this is how you do user consultations to determine necessary changes to a software project.