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Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops (sdtimes.com)
dmleonard618 writes: A new GitHub project is allowing software teams to construct software like Legos. DockerCraft is a Minecraft mod that lets administrators handle and deploy servers within Minecraft. What makes this project really interesting is that it lets you navigate through server stacks in a 3D space. "In today's world, we wanted to focus more on building. Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of the decade, so we chose to use that as our visual interface to Docker," Docker wrote in a blog.
I'm 42. I agree with his statement about it being the sandbox game of the decade. Feel free to provide your alternative when you are done with your ad hominem.
Once upon a time, a BOFH would manage his system with a pistol. If we KILL'ed a process, we'd loot its shotgun and be even more feared. It was brutal, bloody, and cruel. The way system administration is supposed to be. "root, red in tooth and claw."
Now? Minecraft. And not a good PvP server, either. I'll bet they don't even have TNT or skeleton archers, either. "Creative mode". My 9-year-olds sneer at creative mode. No bloodshed. No mayhem. Nothing to lose.
Pretty soon, it'll be VM management by buying outfits for Hello Kitty in Hello Kitty Container Adventure.
DO NOT WAAAANT!
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
You clearly don't know what prominent means. Your grab bag of DayZ inspired clones are so incredibly niche and platform-limited that most gamers have never even heard of them. Most *gamers* are familiar with Bethesda games but outside that group it's not well recognised. EVERYONE knows what Minecraft is.
Now if you had said Grand Theft Auto you might have an argument. Pretty much everyone alive knows about that one too. But in terms of prominence Minecraft still takes it due to it's penetration in serious disciplines like academia and science.