[Devtools] support for OpenShift Container Platform / Origin in minikube?

[Roland Huss]

I had the luck to try it out first and I have to say, it's awesome. From
scratch to a running OpenShift origin with minishift it took me 1:56 min
(11 MBit/s downstream) for the initial run and 30s for subsequent starts.

On OS X it uses xhyve under the covers so not even VirtualBox is
required (an no local Docker installation, btw).

Kudos Jimmi, it's really extraordinary !

imo that the way to go for competing the outstanding Docker Inc. UX ....
... roland

> I've started minishift (fork of minikube) at
> https://github.com/jimmidyson/minishift if anyone wants to try it out.
> Will publish a first release of it later today or tomorrow hopefully.
> All feedback welcome - building is pretty simple, as long as you have
> the Go toolchain setup.
> 
>> would this be able to run red hat's variation of docker ?
> 
> Of course we can but the question is what benefit it brings? As this
> is only for single dev, easy getting started & play what Docker
> version is being used should be inconsequential to the ux. The only
> problem I can see with using RHT's Docker is the size of the ISO that
> minishift will need to download to start the VM. Right now this is
> ~36MB & this allows for really speedy startup (effectively no waiting
> for download). Switching to RHT's Docker & potentially CentOS/RHEL I
> would expect this to grow, which isn't terrible but would affect the
> ux somewhat.
> 
>> and how about openshift itself ?
> 
> Minishift runs latest version of OpenShift (latest version at time of
> build embedded in the minishift binary for speedy start up time) & I
> am going to make the version configurable via flags which will
> download the specified release from github on startup, with caching
> for subsequent runs, etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jimmi
> 
> On 6 July 2016 at 08:32, Hardy Ferentschik <hferents at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 06-Jul-2016 00:53, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> looks great. would this be able to run red hat's variation of docker ? and
>>> how about openshift itself ?
>>
>> My thinking as well. Might be worth investigating. A miniopenshift would have
>> a great appeal.
>>
>> --Hardy
>>
> 
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