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Kosie
Kosie

Reputation: 441

Docker: Dockerizing apache virtual hosts

After playing around with docker for a week or so, I thought it may be a good idea to dockerize my 4 Apache virtual hosts, each in its own container. I will then have NGINX in front (also in a container) to proxy to these virtual hosts based on domain name.

My question is, since I am going to run NGINX and 4 full instances of Apache, will that not be much more of a resource hog, than having one Apache instance (not dockerized) with 4 virtual hosts?

On the other hand, I will be able to tweak the Apache configuration for each vhost in a container on an individual basis, which would make sense as some sites are much more busy than others.

What would be best practices be in this situation?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 773

Answers (1)

thaJeztah
thaJeztah

Reputation: 28987

It does depend on how you configure apache; by default apache is configured to use lots of resources; you could decide to tune-down your apache configuration to use less resources, and spin up more instances (containers) if more capacity is needed.

Upvotes: 1

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