[Container-tools] Rethinking Nulecule

[Pete Muir]

Great idea. Let me know what you need from me to help you with this -
this is my contribution priority for the next 90 days

On 10 March 2016 at 04:29, Ratnadeep Debnath <rtnpro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Till now, Nulecule's focus has been to be a spec to package and ship
> nested, composable multi container applications. Well, it helps us to
> focus on a smaller problem and solve it well. This also keeps
> implementation of Nulecule, e.g., atomicapp, lean and simple.
>
> However, is it enough?
>
>
> I will try to highlight a few shortcomings of the current Nulecule spec:
>
> - the spec file does not fully describe the architecture of the applications
> - it's difficult to get started with Nulecule as it requires knowledge
> of underlying providers
> - it's not possible to use the same Nulecule spec to deploy a Nulecule
> application across providers without writing artifacts for each
> provider
>
>
> So, we are thinking in the lines of extending Nulecule SPEC to
> describe a multi container application completely in the SPEC file,
> similar to Docker compose file. This will enable us to:
>
> - to automatically generate artifact files for underlying providers
> from the SPEC file
> - to override the generated artifact files, if needed
>
>
> The advantages of such a change would be:
>
> - zero barrier entry for developers
> - package once, in one language, and deploy anywhere
>
>
> This move will be beneficial to:
>
> - developers, with little knowledge about openshift, k8s, marathon, etc.
> - ISVs to package apps to run across multiple providers
> - switch seamlessly to another provider
>
>
> We're keen to hear your feedback on the above proposed changes. Will
> this help to make Nulecule more awesome and user friendly? Let us know
> what you think.
>
>
> Thanks,
> rtnpro
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