Docker Migration Poll

I've been calling this "The Docker Road Show", talking to anyone who will listen about IT efforts to decommission our old Ubuntu Lucid compute image in favor of a more modern infrastructure based on Docker containers. You may know that the software that the IT team uses to run "production" pipelines has already been moved to Docker. You may also know that other teams around MGI have worked hard to move their tools into Docker as well. But the pace of migration is largely unknown to us, as we attempt to communicate across many different teams of differing levels of interest.

The goals of this IT Blog post are manifold:

• Further communicate our mission to decommission the legacy compute image.
• Get some feedback from the user community. How are things going?
• Accelerate the migration. If people won't miss the Lucid LSF slots, we'll migrate more hosts to the Docker enabled image.

I put up this new page in the ITKB space to show how many of which sort of host exist today:

Conversion of all High Performance Computing (HPC) to Docker

I created this Doodle Poll in an attempt to learn how many of you have begun using Docker:

Where are you on your Docker journey?

Please take a moment to participate in the poll and let us know how things are going!

Don't forget the ITKB has a number of links about Docker, including: /wiki/spaces/IT/pages/180466559