Just want to add that I also use it on windows without barely any issues (win 10 x64). I'm not sure how stable it is on Mac OSX but Kitematic is pretty sweet.
The only problems I've had with Docker container are those where processes get stuck inside the container and the --restart=always flag is set. When this happens it means that if you can't force the container to stop, when you reboot the defunct container will restart anyway and cause you the same issue...
My solution to this has been to just create a clean AMI image with ubuntu/rancher/docker and then nuke the old host when it gives me problems. This is made even easier if you use EFS because it's literally already 100% setup once you launch a replacement instance.
The only problems I've had with Docker container are those where processes get stuck inside the container and the --restart=always flag is set. When this happens it means that if you can't force the container to stop, when you reboot the defunct container will restart anyway and cause you the same issue...
My solution to this has been to just create a clean AMI image with ubuntu/rancher/docker and then nuke the old host when it gives me problems. This is made even easier if you use EFS because it's literally already 100% setup once you launch a replacement instance.
Also, you can do automatic memory-limiting and cpu-limiting your nodes using rancher-compose and health-checks that re-route traffic with L7 & HAProxy: http://docs.rancher.com/rancher/v1.1/zh/cattle/health-checks...
The only thing even comparable to that in my mind would be Consul health checks with auto-discovery: https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/index.html