[Container-tools] Fedora Rolekit & Nulecule

[Václav Pavlín]

It's public ML: https://www.redhat.com/archives/container-tools/

On 06/11/2015 04:04 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 17:54 +0200, Václav Pavlín wrote:
>> Attendees: vpavlin, sgallagher
>>
>> Stephen is working on a feature for containerizing Server Roles:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Containerized_Server_Roles
>>
>> This work could benefit from Nulecule spec as it would make it easy
>> for administrators to start (small) locally and then move to a
>> bigger/more-cloudy environment.
>>
>> Roles can consist of one or more containerized applications which
>> would be packaged as Nulecules and would be deployed through rolekit
>> tool. Rolekit tool should use Atomic App in the background. To make
>> it easy for rolekit to communicate with Atomic App we should think
>> about adding REST API not only to gather logs as implemented in [1]
>> but also to control the tool - even Cockpit or Foreman could benefit
>> from that.
>>
>> Another topic was that Fedora Serve Roles should not depend on Docker
>> registry being available thus Atomic App should be able to build the
>> images needed to run the applications. We don't have the explicit
>> connection to the Dockerfile or the "binary" image specified in
>> Nulecule spec, but it seems we will need it in the future.
>>
>> My first thought about how to solve this for Roles specificaly would
>> mean to be able to package Dockerfile as an artifact and being able
>> to build it prior to run.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vašek
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/projectatomic/atomicapp/pull/99
>
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