[SOLVED] Do you choose virtualization or container?

business_kid · 03-17-2024, 05:14 AM

@Jason.nix: Why don't you stop just asking questions and try it? You seem to be dreaming about this because you're not actually doing anything we are aware of.

pan64 · 03-17-2024, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Jason.nix

Hello,
Suppose you want to create a separate virtual machine for each service such as Nginx and PHP. How can you tell Nginx virtual machine to use another virtual machine to compile .php files? is this possible?

How is it related to the original question?
The answer is: yes, it is possible.
Here is a howto: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...fferent-server

sundialsvcs · 03-18-2024, 06:50 PM

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How can you tell Nginx virtual machine to use another virtual machine to compile .php files? is this possible?

Important clarification: "compile" should be: "run."

The scenario that you describe is called "FastCGI," and it describes a way that a web-server, such as "nginix," can pass "CGI requests" to another server, expecting that server to execute the requested scripts and return "the result."

You can achieve this outcome in several ways ... both "between [virtual ...] machines" and "within a single containerized environment."

And: "the web abounds" with existing explanations.

dugan · 03-18-2024, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason.nix

Suppose you want to create a separate virtual machine for each service such as Nginx and PHP. How can you tell Nginx virtual machine to use another virtual machine to compile .php files? is this possible?

You mean, how do you set nginx up as a reverse proxy to the other web server that's actually serving up the PHP application? The short answer is: over networking. Each service is running on a machine that has its own IP, and each service has a port.

And btw, Jason.nix: don't be a help vampire.

sundialsvcs · 03-19-2024, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by dugan

The short answer is: over networking. Each service is running on a machine that has its own IP, and each service has a port.

And, very importantly, "containerization" can mimic that.

Containerization can give each application the apparently-closed environment that it "expects" – filesystem, network, CPUs and so on – without it actually being real. Usually, this is sufficient.

Turbocapitalist · 03-25-2024, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by pan64

I work at a really huge company, like Microsoft or IBM. We produce software and we install our software into VMs.

I'll start another thread to ask about global SSH client configurations.