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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.
This is all well and good until a rogue creeper blows up half of your servers.
I know this!
Well, I guess on the plus side you could see a really clear representation of how your servers smoke, catch on fire, and explode when you put too much load on them now.
Sounds like a great way to get unrelated items connected because it looks good.
Cheap storage VM.
So now instead of my girls watching hours of PopularMMOs, they will watch hours of people managing servers? The ability of the human mind to come up with ever more inane forms of entertainment always surprises me. Plus, you know, girls and STEM careers and all that.
Someone should come up with a Minecraft Motif skin. If you are going to go blocky and retro, at least do it right.
You'll just have to wait a few years and find out for yourself.
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.
What's it like having the brain of a 10 year old?
Its great, I keep it in a jar on the shelf.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Nah - forget Minecraft as a sysadmin tool... let's bring back PSDOOM!
(just don't kill the init monster! )
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
When it came time for an (almost) complete novice to navigate a complex theme park security system to lock it down before a velocaraptor ate her for dinner, what type of UI did they use? A friggin 3D UI on a Unix system. If it's good enough in that case, it's good enough anywhere.
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.
GTA makes a great model for systems management!
I'm 62 and I love Minecraft! An eight year old got me started by asking me how to do things within the game. I started playing so I could answer his questions, and got hooked. I could play for hours.
Women? I've had more than my fair share and now I'm slowing down in that particular activity. The parts still work, but the desire to use them has declined, much like my 64 year old girlfriend's.
Scotch? I don't drink. That's dangerous.
Other people? I don't really like crowds, if that's what you're talking about. Family and a few friends will do for me. When you have NINE grandchildren, you don't really have to go far to be among people.
Volunteering? Been there, done lots of that. I now prefer $$.
The outside? I've spent nearly 40 years working outside, several years as a Scout leader being outside, played sports outside, hunted outside, fished outside, etc.. I don't need more time trying to get skin cancer, thank you. After traveling on my job for so many years, I don't even want to go on vacation anywhere except home.
You need to realize that different people like to spend their time doing whatever they like doing. I suggest you spend yours chilling out a little.