[Container-tools] Naming Convention for Nulecule Examples

[John Mark Walker]

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> 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 ?

Fair question. I guess if we push these into the Atomic repo under dockerhub is it self-evident that these are atomic app containers?

-JM


> 
> > 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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