[Container-tools] Why 'atomic' cli when 'atomicapp' serves the purpose

[Suraj Deshmukh]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlie Drage" <cdrage at redhat.com>
> To: "Suraj Deshmukh" <sdeshmuk at redhat.com>
> Cc: container-tools at redhat.com
> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 8:28:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Container-tools] Why 'atomic' cli when 'atomicapp' serves the purpose
> 
> We had numerous discussions with the Atomic CLI team in regards to the
> splitting
> of Atomic and Atomic App or at least a compromise between the two.
> 
> For ex. using "atomic app run" instead of "atomic run" which would be
> an alias to atomicapp (either imported as a library or whatever), or
> having atomic app natively on Atomic host. Albit this was discussed,
> we did not implement it.
> 
> The biggest pain being that in order to use atomicapp effectively we have
> to circumvent some Atomic CLI commands (for ex. we added --mode
> run/fetch/install, so we can use "fetch" in atomicapp via atomic run
> projectatomic/helloapache --mode fetch).
> 
> Unfortunatley due to the minimalism of Project Atomic hosts (Fedora 22
> Atomic Host, CentOS Atomic Host, etc. they don't even have git since
> it requires perl dependencies? ) our discussions lead to leaving
> it to how it was before and using --mode in atomic CLI instead.
> 
> But yes, you can if you choose, to skip "atomic" and use "atomicapp"
> for the deployment and stopping of the packaged container. Although at
> the moment it's not suggested in production environments (Atomic,
> Hosts, etc.), for dev though it should be fine.
> 
> I'd like to bring back this discussion if possible. If anyone else
> would like to reply to this in order to offer a different viewpoint
> then that would be great!
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Charlie Drage
> Red Hat - OSAS Team / Project Atomic
> 4096R / 0x9B3B446C
> http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x622CDF119B3B446C
> 

Hi,

I got the idea, atomicapp can will distributed as container for folks to run
on Atomic Hosts.

Thanks and Regards.

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- Suraj Deshmukh (surajd)
http://deshmukhsuraj.wordpress.com/