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• Using Containers with InterSystems IRIS

  Using Containers with InterSystems IRIS

  Content Type
  Exercise

  Duration
  2h

  Level
  Intermediate

  Learn to effectively use Docker containers, starting with basic container operations and progressing to use cases involving InterSystems IRIS® data platform. See how containers allow you to simplify application deployment, improve scalability, and manage infrastructure with greater efficiency.

  In this exercise, you will set up Docker on your machine and build a sample containerized InterSystems IRIS application that simulates an online store for selling coffee makers.

  
  

  Learning Objectives

  • Create, manage, and remove Docker containers.
  • Create new container images manually or from build processes.
  • Persist data using bind mounts.
  • Use Durable %SYS directories for persisting InterSystems IRIS data.
  • Use Docker Compose for multi-container deployments.
  • Update containers in place while preserving your application and data.

  
  

  Prerequisites

  • None
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  Start the Exercise

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• What's Next?

  What's Next?

  You have now learned how to work with Docker containers and InterSystems IRIS Community Edition images. Containers provide a portable and efficient way to develop, deliver, and scale your applications for any environment. Whether you are building your application to be deployed in a public or private cloud, on a set of bare metal servers, or on your own machine, containers allow you to keep the same development approach and preserve a clean separation of your code and your data.

  Using InterSystems IRIS in containers, you can continue to build the powerful applications that leverage the scalability, data model flexibility, and performance of InterSystems IRIS without sacrificing the efficiency and portability that containers provide.

  Continue learning with the following content:

  • Learn more about achieving high availability using Kubernetes and InterSystems IRIS (exercise, 45m).
  • Learn more about deploying InterSystems IRIS in containers in the cloud (learning path, 3h 15m).

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