[Container-tools] Notes from Container Tools cabal call July 22

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:29:46AM -0700, Langdon White wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/22/2015 06:59 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >      Notes from Container Tools cabal call July 22
> >
> >Presents:
> >Aaron Weitekamp
> >Brian  Stinson
> >Brian Charles Exelbierd
> >Daniel Veillard
> >Dusty Mabe
> >Greg  Allen
> >Jan  Beran
> >Lalatendu Shishusankar Mohanty
> >Navid Shaik
> >Peter  Muir
> >Trieloff Carl
> >Václav Pavlín
> >
> >Discussions with Max Andersen:
> >  * in instruction we start a box, from an Eclipse tooling we should not
> >    have to ssh in. Can we instead get a config file. After the vagrant
> >    command
> >  => REST API on top of atomicapp then one could just call it
> >  => in the CDK we do an vagrant up, but we need in an automated way find the IP of the server and port.
> >  => Pete and Brian will work on this together
> vagrant-hostmanager[1] plugin?
> 
> virsh will also give you this info, but that is, obviously, linux specific

  gettting the IP may only be recent, but the MAC address yes, then you may
derive the IP ...

> >  =>
> >  Card: https://trello.com/c/rfeFA7RK/160-work-with-eclipse-folks-to-test-mac-os-x-usability
> >
> >VirtualBox backend:
> >  * we don't have an rpm for those there, CentOS can redistribute the
> >    binaries needed but might not be okay for Fedora. Better drivers
> >    (graphics and disk)
> >  * Lala to check if it can be shipped as part of the RHEL CDK too,
> >    but we need a list of all the files needed and associated Licences and
> >    provide to Brian
> >=> need a trello card
> >=> Vagrant on the CentOs site, the vagrant box got a lot of download,
> >    content and setup are fine, but people ask for 4 things:
> still would *really* like someone to investigate doing the vbox addons in a
> container so they could also be used in the atomic vagrant boxes
> 
> >  * VMWare hypervisor support
> >  * VBox users can't resize the disk to do this they need the tools from
> >    VB included would help a lot
> >  * Windows 8.1 have support for Hyper-V this would help
> >  * They want AMI and GCE ( cloud backed vagrant boxes) images too for
> >    the cloud development.
> >
> >Openshift provider:
> >  * Aaron  is making progresses on OpenShift. Christoph made an PR for
> >    Openshift provider on Wordpress.
> >  * There is multiple use cases
> >
> >XPath like access for replacement variables:
> >  * DV getting through the code, but had a hard time getting his environment ready

  It's improving BTW, my problem is making sure we pick the right syntax now.
I commented on an issue I found.

> >Get a review of the dev-assistant next week
> >
> >Lala build the definition, Langdon should build the box this week and then once we have that Rel Eng build the final version . Lala to sync with Langdon and keep DV in loop
> >
> >What about a f2f & design meeting in September in India where a number of
> >new staff will be joining:
> >    what about week of 14-18 Sep or 21-25 Sep in Bangalore ?
> 
> FWIW, week of 21-25 is much better for me.. I am involved in organizing a
> conf that takes place the week of 14-18..

  okay

> On a related note, would it be worth trying to put up a day long "cloud-y
> ish" day with a focus on nulecule/atomicapp at the end of the stay to try to
> 1) help our sales pitch 2) promote nulecule 3)help with hiring 4) etc ?
> 
> langdon
> >
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-hostmanager < i think this is the
> best one, but i may be misremembering

Daniel

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