In-reply-to » Can I ask a potentially dumb question? Does Docker use oodles more resources than running a native instance of an application? I've never used it and thought it made good use of virtualisation and would have a bit of overhead, but then I've seen tests that say it's not far off native in most aspects... so I dunno.

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com No not really. There is a little overhead as with any layer of abstraction, but it’s not that bad. I can measure it on some of my clusters if you like and give you real figures.

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