[Container-tools] Ways to enable Vagrant Service-Manager plugin

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 02/29/2016 02:34 PM, Budh Ram wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd <bex at pobox.com 
> <mailto:bex at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Feb 26, 2016, at 6:15 PM, Budh Ram <budhram.gurung01 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:budhram.gurung01 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > We would like to get input on different ways of enabling
>     "vagrant service-manager" plugin [1].
>     >
>     > We could come up with following possible ways:
>     >
>     > 1. Enable for all Vagrant boxes regardless.
>
>     I think this is too invasive.
>
> I believe this one is default behavior of every vagrant plugin. If one 
> don't want feature, then it should not be installed.
>
>
>     > 2. Set "enabled" flag "true" in Vagrantfile unless we specify
>     any service(s).
>     >
>     >    config.servicemanager.enabled = true
>     >
>     >    or
>     >
>     >    config.servicemanager.services = 'openshift'
>
>     This would work.  I believe that "config.service-manager.services
>     = 'docker'" should also be accepted, even though it is a noop as
>     pointed out below.
>
>     > 3. Detect when to enable based on a set of names(particulary box
>     name like 'projectatomic/adb')
>
>     I like box detection.  I do not like detecting it via name.  Could
>     we scan for /etc/release information? How heavy would this be on
>     unrelated boxes, especially non-Linux ones?
>
>
> Yes we can scan "/etc/os-release" and get the "VARIANT_ID" as "adb" or 
> "cdk" and detact against the box mentioned in Vagrantfile. One concern 
> is that the box name in Vagrantfile is combination of "projectatomic" 
> and "adb"/"cdk". So, we can extract out "adb" / "cdk" and compare it. 
> I hope this approach is fine.

We should just use /etc/os-release to detect the ADB/CDK box. 
Vagrant-registration also only detects RHEL and prompts for user name 
and password AFAIR.

The name in Vagrantfile can be changed by the user easily, so it is not 
a reliable thing.

-Lala

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