[aklug] Re: New machine or Virtual Machine

Instead of VMs, have you considered docker containers? I do web
development (drupal), and am migrating my team off our vagrant
development setups to docker and getting huge returns on fast startup
times and OS overhead savings. On my laptop I could generally run 4
development VMs (LAMP with bonus tools and xdebugging/profiling stuffs)
before things got sluggish. I've run 10 docker stacks (all very
similar) without any real pressure on the cpu or memory.

--Jason

On 07/28/2016 02:59 PM, Mike wrote:
> I'm about to start a project to use mininet and several VM's.
>
> The question that came to my mind was, does it make more sense for me
> to purchase a laptop capable of handling the
> needed setup or does it make sense to "rent" a box online and use that.
>
> A quick search provides me with about a cost of $1300 or so for a
> reasonable computer.
>
> I think the project will only take about 3 months.
>
> Are these just crazy thoughts or am I headed in the right direction?
>
> Is anyone else out there doing something similar?
>
> Looking forward to what comes next.... :)
>
>
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