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Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops (sdtimes.com)

Posted by timothy on from the bleep-bloop-blip-blip dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of th by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. Uh oh by dorix · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is all well and good until a rogue creeper blows up half of your servers.

  3. It's a UNIX system... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know this!

  4. The continuing wimpification of system admin by idontgno · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!

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    Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
  5. Re:Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of th by nitehawk214 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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
  6. Re:Minecraft has emerged as the sandbox game of th by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah - forget Minecraft as a sysadmin tool... let's bring back PSDOOM!

    (just don't kill the init monster! )

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    Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?