[Container-tools] new minishift CDK

[Praveen Kumar]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> We had a situation where a route was misbehaving. My investigation strategy is to get inside the VM, oc get services and curl the IP address.
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>> I actually do this as a live demo on the current CDK.
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>> And I transfer in files that I need via
>> vagrant rsync
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>> Do we have an Asher for that?
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> With Minishift we have not taken that route as we want to keep the ISO as much as light weighted. But I think we need to provide some sort of way for advance users who want to play with the VM more.
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> At this point we are focusing on making Minishift useful for developers and it is a lot of work. If you think we should take use case like this with high priority then we should talk and discuss.
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>> Also, another inside VM trick, I like checking free memory and disk.  Running out of disk is common with heavy Docker usage.
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> Right. We also want to add an feature where user can specify a higher size disk. Currently the default is 20GB and there is no way to change it.

We do have option in minishift start where you can specify a higher
disk space like 40GB when start. `minishift start --disk-size 40g`
which create 40GB persistent storage in the VM.


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