[Container-tools] Reusable Ansible scripts for setting up Atomic on CentOS/7

[Carl Trieloff]

On 09/01/2015 09:41 AM, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Ratnadeep Debnath <rtnpro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> One advantage of this more modular approach is that the individual
>>> >> roles could become candidates for submitting to Ansible Galaxy:
>>> >> https://galaxy.ansible.com/intro#share
>>> >>
>>> >> The other larger bundles could then potentially be updated to pull the
>>> >> latest versions of the roles from Galaxy, rather than direct from
>>> >> GitHub: https://galaxy.ansible.com/intro#download
>> >
>> > Thanks Nick, for validating my proof of concept work :)
> So, if we're to work on writing reusable Ansible scripts for Docker,
> Kubernetes, Atomic, etc., should it be only CentOS/Fedora/RHEL
> specific or generic? I prefer to write generic Ansible scripts, which
> will work for RedHat and Debian distribution families. However, if
> we're to release the ansible scripts on Ansible Galaxy under the
> banner of CentOS, would it be proper to include scripts for Debian
> too, then? Also, having generic scripts for multiple distribution
> families would increase the maintenance overhead. However, if we
> undertake the pain of maintaining the scripts, it will really be
> helpful for the Linux devops community, in general, no matter where
> they use RedHat or Debian based distribution, to use the Ansible
> scripts, which are developed and maintained by us.

Generic is better, but that would require interest from other distro
maintainers to test/ keep them working.  Getting the family you list
above is our first priority.

Carl.