[Container-tools] [Devtools] Cockpit in ADB

Burr Sutter bsutter at redhat.com
Thu May 19 23:07:46 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 05/19/2016 07:03 AM, Praveen Kumar wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> | From: "Pete Muir" <pmuir at redhat.com>
>> | To: "Lalatendu Mohanty" <lmohanty at redhat.com>
>> | Cc: devtools at redhat.com, "container-tools" <container-tools at redhat.com>
>> | Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:20:13 PM
>> | Subject: Re: [Devtools] Cockpit in ADB
>> |
>> | Is this installed on the host, or is it in a container?
>>
>> It installed in VM as rpm package not using container.
>>
>
> As a container it would have been around 200MB and docker pulls take time
> . However recently we have identified extra set of packages in ADB which we
> have removed and it reduced the size of the Vagrantbox around 100MB. We
> have more plans to reduce the size too.
>
>
While I think Cockpit is cool, how does Cockpit add value to our
"enterprise developer"?

There is an interest in slimming the size (disk & RAM) of downloadable VM
(.box) not beefing it up. :-)


>
>
>> |
>> | My concern is that it will increase the size of the VM.
>>
>> It's around 6MB and we can have a trade-off between increased size and
>> functionality/user-experience it provides.
>>
>> |
>> | On 17 May 2016 at 18:43, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com> wrote:
>> | > Hi,
>> | >
>> | > We have added  Cockpit packages to ADB as we thought it would add
>> value to
>> | > ADB users.
>> | >
>> | > With Cockpit GUI an user can do docker pulls , docker runs etc apart
>> from
>> | > system administration work. Cockpit also provides a web terminal
>> which can
>> | > used to run docker commands without logging in to the Vagrantbox (it
>> is
>> | > useful for Windows users as vagrant ssh does not work naively).
>> | >
>> | > How ever we are not sure whether it should be part of the default
>> | > experience
>> | > of ADB. So at this point the Cockpit service is not started by
>> default.
>> | > There is an open issue for this [1] and we are looking for feedback.
>> | >
>> | > [1]
>> https://github.com/projectatomic/adb-atomic-developer-bundle/issues/389
>> | >
>> | > Thanks,
>> | > Lala
>> | >
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