Hi David,

You can certainly take the concepts here and use it as a foundation to implement a production environment if your production environment is small enough and performance degradation should be nominal which is why containers are so cool. The key here that makes what I covered in this post as more for test is as you said, density and size of host. Also, I would do a bit more in hardening with stricter permissions and potentially better logical separation with regards to the SDN defined. I may also specify static IP’s for the containers so that any IP based connections don’t break on a reboot that launches the containers in a different sequence. The above are just a few things I can think of off the top of my head. I am sure there are others if I sat down and gave it some real thought. Again, keep in mind that this is only manageable if your production environment is small. Otherwise, I highly recommend digging into Kubernetes which will make your life a lot easier.