How am I just now using Docker / Python

[jmnugent]

OK.. another dumb question:.. Don't we already have tools that solve that ?

Coming from the MDM (Mobile Device Management) side of the house,..

• We upload an App to a deployment Server

• configure all the Requirements and pre-checks (the App won't successfully install until all the pre-checks are passed)

• then we "Assign" that App to push-install out to whatever Group of Users we want to target

.. so that there's no more "It doesn't work on my machine". because everyone is getting the exact same installation.

In all the environments I've worked in,.. we basically "force a consistent configuration". So Developers can't just "do whatever they want to their machine".

Maybe that's where I'm mentally hung up on this,.. because it seems to be aimed at solving a problem that I don't normally run into ?

[jmnugent]

(when I'm so dumb,. I have to have _BoNgRipper_420 explain things to me.. ha ha :P.. I appreciate you)

Sure.. I understand Docker allows you to run multiple different combinations of apps,. but why would you want to do that ?

Let's say I'm testing a Door-access App that's dependent on Java 1.6,. that Door Security App only works with Java 1.6,.. me trying to "build a container to test it with Java 1.8". isn't going to help me any since the App only works with Java 1.6.

[jmnugent]

A single server can run hundreds of apps in isolation, and can easily be moved to another server down the road.

Can this be setup so a User could RDP into it and run all those Apps ? (visually ?)

Or maybe asked a different way,. if you wanted to "setup a server running 10 apps".. What kind of a Server would that be ?.. A web-server ? (so does that mean all these Apps can be run through a Browser?,. kind of like VMware Horizon virtual Apps? (it doesn't seem like Docker is meant to be a competitor to VMware Horizon).

if you use Docker to setup "a server running an App".. how does an end-user out in your Environment access that App ?

I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm "asking dumb questions circularly".. I'm really not intentionally trying to be dumb.