[Devtools] CDK usage: Your thoughts are needed!

[Pete Muir]

On 29 July 2016 at 19:50, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/27/2016 10:06 PM, Rick Wagner wrote:
>
> Hello DevTools SMEs,
>
> We are seeing a few more CDK support cases, most seem to indicate curiosity
> and tire-kicking.  We also have a case with a customer going a step further.
>
> The customer in question wants to use the CDK to develop on the desktop and
> deploy to an Enterprise OpenShift.
>
> It's my understanding that there are two primary schemes:
>
> - Push source code (perhaps using a tag like 'prod') to a source repository
> accessed by the enterprise OpenShift environment.  (Be it QE, Prod,
> whatever).
> - Push docker images to an external repository accessed by the enterprise
> OpenShift.
>
>
> These ideas perfectly makes sense to me. Any organization going through the
> DevOps route would need this work flows.
>
>
> There are nuances like use of WebHooks vs. manual pulls, Jenkins doing the
> monitoring, etc.
>
> This seems a really foundational use case for the CDK, so it seems like
> something we'd want to document.  I've been discussing this with Robert
> Kratky but wanted to open the discussion to get more viewpoints (and
> especially more users that have experience.)
>
>
> These needs to ironed out , needs testing and then documentation.
>
>
> Of special interest:
>
> - The customer is indicating a desire for some widget on the CDK-supplied
> OpenShift UI so he can 'push' artifacts to the enterprise OpenShift's docker
> repository.
>
> +1 .  Developer tool should help move things in to the DevOps workflow. The
> pipeline work going on in OpenShift might align here. Need to cross check.

I think the CD pipeline (i.e. pushing source) should be our
recommended approach here.

>
> - The customer is asking if Docker version is relevant.  (i.e. the CDK's
> version of Docker may need to align with the external image repository's
> version.  True or False?)
>
>
> The only requirement I think is the docker version should support the image
> format present in external image repository. I do not think this would be
> problem if they stick to OpenShift Enterprise.
>
>
> Please consider, add thoughts to the discussion.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rick
>
>
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