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

[Jimmi Dyson]

On 7 July 2016 at 16:09, Clayton Coleman <ccoleman at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 4:24 AM, Jimmi Dyson <jdyson at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Not running the Red Hat Docker is a serious problem for OpenShift /
> Kube, simply given the instability and gaps in upstream Docker.  While
> we're not running production workloads, it's really difficult to
> certify and fix issues.

If someone can provide me with a URL to a simple tarball of RHT Docker
if it's available I'm more than happy to use that in the ISO, but
obviously don't want to have to include a full on yum install, etc
which will bloat the ISO for little value in this case.

>
> I have trouble believing we can't match he size of that iso in practical terms.
>
>
>>
>>> 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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