Ask HN: Should I install Hadoop/Spark/IPython in Docker?
I have several machines that I want to quickly setup to have Spark and Jupyter Notebook. Is it a good practice to install everything with Docker or is there an alternative?
Tldr; For performance where you will run the OS directly on the hardware (or in virtual machines) and install the same services with the same config on all machines look into a CM tool like Rex (https://www.rexify.org).
For massive scaling out services look into cluster managers for Docker like Kubernetes. It will be a steep learning curve if you have no experience.