Matt Lord (Senior MySQL Product Manager at Oracle) gave a good presentation on the state of MySQL with containers.  I had already been to a session on Oracle and containers and there was some overlap, but it was a good presentation on the state of Oracles support of MySQL on Docker.

My sense after attending both of these sessions is that Docker and contains have a large roll in the future delivery of database services.  I also have the sense that we are about 6 months to a year away from those on the bleeding edge having worked out the kinks and it will all be ready for production database workloads.

Notes:

• What is a Container (already covered in Oracle Docker presentation)
  • Copy on Write layering file system
• Native Windows Containers – Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 (similar features to Linux kernel)
• Makes most sense to match base OS with Container OS, but not required
  • Because less differences so less moved up in filesystem layers
• Mac and Windows both support running Linux containers but run on top of visualizer (xhyve in mac, hyperv on Windows) – Alpine Linux (built for Docker)
• Why
  • Package software in a single binary image
  • Everything is repeatable
  • Helps with patching
• Official MySQL Container Goals
  • Official release product includes a container built on Oracle Linux
  • Container for all products
    • MySQL (NDB) Cluster – preliminary now
    • InnoDB Cluster – not public now
    • Router, Shell, Workbench, Utilities, etc. – future
  • Work with compose, Swarm, Kubernetes
  • Integrate with wider Oracle plans for Docker and Container Services
• Demo of Docker on Mac
  • Showed vm running Alpine Linux