[scl.org] Sharing Software Collections over NFS?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Feb 9 16:00:31 UTC 2018


I don't know if this is useful for the this, but when we were doing
similar setups in the 90's we would have
/nfs/stuff/os/version/arch/{etc,bin,lib,scripts} which would have
readonly tools. The clients would copy them to their local etc on
first setup in the OS appropriate location so that they could have a
mutable version.

On 9 February 2018 at 10:45, Honza Horak <hhorak at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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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