[scl.org] Sharing Software Collections over NFS?

[Honza Horak]

On 02/09/2018 04:23 PM, Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
> Hi Honza,
> 
> On 09.02.2018 16:03, Honza Horak wrote:
> 
>> It's been a while since I wrote an article about a cool feature that 
>> we introduced together with Software Collections packaging format, 
>> which is *the ability to share the environment on multiple machines by 
>> NFS sharing *[1].
>>
>> The idea is very simple -- install Software Collections of your 
>> favorite application stack (say Python 3.6 + NodeJS 8) and mount the 
>> /opt/rh on workstations. That way you have the same environment on all 
>> machines.
> 
> Sounds nice, but how about config files that are installed in /etc/opt ?

That's tricky, yes, and it's also a reason why we don't do it for stuff 
like databases (data files are even more tricky). This feature is used 
only for dynamic languages like python, ruby, nodejs, ...

Honza

> Cheers,
> Marek
> 
>>
>> Now, I'd like to request some feedback -- is there anybody on the list 
>> (or outside, but you at least know about it) who uses this feature for 
>> the Software Collections packages?
>>
>> Please, let us know! If you can't share it publicly, just drop me a 
>> direct mail. Of course, more feedback is welcome, but even simple YES 
>> would be also cool.
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/06/29/maintain-software-collections-easily-on-thousands-of-machines-using-scl-register/ 
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Honza
>>
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