[Container-tools] [Devtools] Proposing design for automating ADB Initialization

[Suraj Deshmukh]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Budh Gurung <bgurung at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, we are setting up ADB environment for customized behaviors
> through Vagrantfiles present in ADB repo [1] under "components/centos"
> folder.
>
> General flow for setting up any customized behavior like openshift in ADB is
> as follows:
>
> User go to ADB repo [1]
> Navigate to “components/centos/centos-openshift-setup” folder
> User open Vagrantfile in "raw" mode
> Download and copy to desired location
> User perform further Vagrant operations
>
> Whole idea of this proposal is to automate this initial behavior of setting
> up Vagrantfile in ADB.

Nice Idea, this will save me the hassle of manually downloading the
Vagrantfile, which is confusing to new users.

>
> ### New Behavior
>
> Through command line, user will fire only one command to setup Openshift.
> Example:
>
>>    $ vagrant service-manager init projectatomic/adb --service openshift
>>
>>    $ ls
>>       Vagrantfile                      # Vagrantfile for OpenShift
>
>
> Same for Kubernetes and Meso-marathon.
>
>
> ### Points to note for proposed change
>
> This will be replacement for command "vagrant init projectatomic/adb".
> User need not to download any Vagrantfile. Vagrantfile automatically
> generated as per user configurations.    (    Currently user need to
> download or git clone adb repo [1] and go to respective Vagrantfile    )
> Vagrantfiles will be maintained in Vagrant service-manager repo [2]    (
> Currently, Vagrantfiles are maintained in ADB repo [1]    )
> Documentation need to be updated for this change in ADB
> Automate the initialization process. Open gate for other automation too.
> (    Currently no automation    )
> Better User experience
>
>
> I would like to know more about what you think about this proposal.
> Please feel free to give your valuable comments/suggestions.
>
> [1] https://github.com/projectatomic/adb-atomic-developer-bundle
> [2] https://github.com/projectatomic/vagrant-service-manager
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Budh Ram Gurung
> Software Engineer - Dev Tools
>
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