[Container-tools] Naming Convention for Nulecule Examples

Karanbir Singh kbsingh at redhat.com
Tue Jul 21 14:30:36 UTC 2015


On 21/07/15 13:03, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
> On 07/21/2015 11:26 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
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>> On 21/07/15 10:09, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>>> Currently our Nulecule examples are named inconsistently.  I
>>> suggest we adopt the following scheme:
>>>
>>> <example name>-<nulecule implementation>
>>
>> can you post examples on what the renamed examples will look like ?
> 
> nulecule/examples> ls
> guestbook-go            guestbook-go-atomicapp
> helloapache            helloapache-atomicapp
> mariadb-app            mariadb-fedora-atomicapp*
> mysql-centos7-atomicapp        mariadb-centos7-atomicapp*
> redis-centos7-atomicapp        redis-centos7-atomicapp
> skydns-atomicapp        skydns-atomicapp
> wordpress-centos7-atomicapp    wordpress-centos7-atomicapp
> 
> * These are proposed for renames in other PRs

why have -atomicapp at all ?

> I am torn on things examples like redis-centos7-atomicapp, however in
> this case it may be significant that the underlying container is on
> CentOS.  In the case of the mariadb examples, the underlying OS is
> required in order to differentiate the examples.

why ? the user should really just be running mariadb or mysql.

> 
> We could add more to the names, such as always including the underlying
> OS, but I feel like that creates two issues:
> 
> 1) We are overloading the names
> 2) We are going to struggle with the proper technology terms in cases
> where we have mixed OS multi-container applications.
> 
> regards,
> 
> bex


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