Custom Container Development:

F1Linux will work with your developers to port their applications to Linux containers for the specified architecture- even AARCH64. Although Alpine Linux is the default OS version due to it’s tiny footprint and excellent security, F1Linux will work with any others the client directs. Support can be provided on an ad hoc basis for specified requirements; no lengthy service contracts required. And of course all the work is documented.

Container Leasing:

All too often fear of breakage frequently results in applications with serious security vulnerabilities being run in production. Staff live in terror of causing business interruption upgrading them or worse, breaking other things due to shared depdendencies, many of which are not fully understood or documented. And maintaining non-revenue generating infrastructure apps diverts staff cycles from supporting the apps which DO increase the organization’s bank balance.

By leasing an infrastruture app Container from F1Linux, you gain:
– Portability: Container is not tied to a specific host and can even be re-cut for a different architecture
– Security: Performing maintenance upgrading critical infrastructure apps becomes routine as running the new, tested container provided by F1Linux
– Reliablity: Unique application config data is disaggregated from the container making DR simple and offering the possibility to restore to completely different hardware if the host it’s running on experiences a hardware fault

I recently witnessed a huge NASDAQ corporation update a Linux mailserver. Took ages, the change was a failure which required it being reverted and they had to wait until the next maintenance window to try again. Had this been a containerized app, reverting, fixing & re-implementing would have been trivial. But infrastructure management didn’t understand containerization and so persisted in making a hard life for themselves- and their organization. But rather than avoid business interruption, by doing things the “old” way they got exactly what they most feared. And they will face the same crisis the next time they attempt to upgrade having just kicked the problem into the long grass…

Presently a Postfix Mailserver container is offered, but supported LDAP and BIND containers will soon be available.