I just don’t get these for a bare metal system. Containers? Sounds great. Definitely on board. Bare metal? Debian, standard fedora, or gentoo is what makes sense to me
Fedora Atomic has been working nicely on my personal laptop. Anything funky, I tend to run in a VM w/ libvirt (KVM/QEMU) or a container. Makes it quicker to fix if I break something.
At that point, make it a thin client which boots from a network image and logs you into a terminal server.
Then you have the hardware and software resources you need for your role wherever you are.
This sounds like a great idea until you have multiple physical sites and dhcp doesn’t span network segments. Or, even if you’re willing to deal with that, employees who work from home. Anything that solves for the second one is almost certainly more complicated than just using vms or containers on remote workstations or a configuration manager on the workstation os and not waste your time on the thin client part
I just don’t get these for a bare metal system. Containers? Sounds great. Definitely on board. Bare metal? Debian, standard fedora, or gentoo is what makes sense to me
Fedora Atomic has been working nicely on my personal laptop. Anything funky, I tend to run in a VM w/ libvirt (KVM/QEMU) or a container. Makes it quicker to fix if I break something.
Workstation-as-code is pretty dope for enterprise…
The idea of an immutable, idempotent, declarative workstation, from cradle to grave, tickles me pink.
At that point, make it a thin client which boots from a network image and logs you into a terminal server.
Then you have the hardware and software resources you need for your role wherever you are.
This sounds like a great idea until you have multiple physical sites and dhcp doesn’t span network segments. Or, even if you’re willing to deal with that, employees who work from home. Anything that solves for the second one is almost certainly more complicated than just using vms or containers on remote workstations or a configuration manager on the workstation os and not waste your time on the thin client part
So… containers that people log into…? Falls under containers