[Container-tools] atomicapp as an installer

[Christoph Görn]

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Hey Aaron, all,
 I think I cant agree with [1], we explicitly excluded lifecycle
 management of the application (code and data), so Atomic App is
 not a good installer, it is a deployment tool: what ever application
 needs to be deployed, Atomic App can parameterize the deployment
 and deploy to a provider.

 The rest of your mail, is basically the "what is Atomic App" page,
 which needs to be done?!

	//G

On 11/23/2015 10:27 PM, Aaron Weitekamp wrote:
> Part of the confusion that accompanies atomicapp is that we're
> treating it as a "new thing." To the new end-user or application 
> developer/packager, running an atomicapp image doesn't mean
> anything until we explain it. That's hard and we haven't done a
> good job of explaining things.
> 
> If we agree that Atomic App is an installer[1] for container 
> applications[2] then our story is simplified. In the container
> space installation is tightly coupled to orchestration so we
> demonstrate how we address that. Recognizing that orchestration
> platforms have different installation needs and capabilities helps
> us address those. Successful installers are flexible, easy to use,
> have clear instructions and some tooling or template to create
> them.
> 
> Is this helpful? Too simplistic? Do we label our atomicapp
> containers something meaningful like <myapp>-installer? There is
> precedent[3].
> 
> [1] A good installer also handles update and uninstall lifecycle
> actions. [2] 
> https://github.com/projectatomic/nulecule#composite-container-based-ap
plication-specification
>
> 
[3] https://hub.docker.com/search/?q=installer
> 
> 
> 
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