This will be another post on using Percona Server via a Docker image. I want to follow up on my previous post regarding CPU/Network overhead in Docker “Measuring Percona Server Docker CPU/network overhead” by measuring if there is any docker IO overhead on operations.
After running several tests, it appears (spoiler alert) that there is no Docker IO overhead. I still think it is useful to understand the different ways Docker can be used with data volumes, however. Docker’s philosophy is to provide ephemeral containers, but ephemeral does not work well for data – we do not want our data to disappear.
So, the first pattern is to create data inside a docker container. This …
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