[Container-tools] Including docker images in ADB Vagrant box

[Aaron Weitekamp]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Langdon White <langdon at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 11/03/2015 10:19 AM, Vaclav Pavlin wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com
>> <mailto:lmohanty at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 11/03/2015 08:22 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
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>>         On 03/11/15 13:51, Vaclav Pavlin wrote:
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>>             On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Karanbir Singh
>>             <kbsingh at redhat.com <mailto:kbsingh at redhat.com>
>>             <mailto:kbsingh at redhat.com <mailto:kbsingh at redhat.com>>>
>>             wrote:
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>>             On 29/10/15 14:27, Vaclav Pavlin wrote:
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>>                 OTOH if the images are already in the box you can have
>>                 you dev
>>                 env really local once you pull the Vagrant box and
>>                 re-upping your
>>                 box will not require internet connection.
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>>             but the size of the vagrant box will go up dramatically,
>>             and if
>>             the only way to ship the updates is via box updates, it
>>             might be a
>>             case of just having transferred the problem from one place to
>>             another.
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> I agree, this will make the box quite a bit larger, but, personally, I
> think it is worth it.
>

​What troubles me about this discussion is we're guessing at what our
users/customers want. Can we ask them? Who uses this today? If the answer
is "no one" then maybe we defer for now, get feedback, respond.

​


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> I also do not think that we would only update via box updates, this is
> just a bootstrap. You could still "docker pull" latest. Obviously, we would
> *also* do box updates but not as the only way to update.
>
> I would really like to see us ship a "caching server" of some sort e.g.
> repofunnel or pulp. However, I don't think those are ready yet for this. We
> could investigate adding docker support to vagrant-cachier[1]. They are
> looking for help anyway, but I am not sure how much work that would be.
>
> langdon
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> [1]: http://fgrehm.viewdocs.io/vagrant-cachier/
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>             Wont it be a far better solution to just map a local host
>>             directory
>>             to docker's storage inside the instance via the
>>             Vagrantfile ? that
>>             way a local cache of the backing store exists on a vagrant
>>             destroy
>>             and up.
>>
>>
>>                 Wouldn't that be problematic on Windows?
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>>         no more or less than any other persistent storage in windows.
>>         or are
>>         you saying that docker is unable to use the shared vol due to
>>         filesys
>>         attrib etc ?
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>> No idea, you are right about generality of this problem, though I would
>> be a bit more concern with the Docker itself (i.e. the laying)
>>
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>>     How will you put the docker images on the shared directory/storage?
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>> IMO, what KB meant, is to pull them on first vagrant up and keep them
>> there for any subsequent destroy && run
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>>         - -- Karanbir Singh, The CentOS Project, London, UK
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