Re: Meeting with Openstack magnum team today
On 02/23/2017 11:32 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
Spent the day chatting with a bunch of Fedora Atomic users today.
Some pain points that came out of todays discussions:
- kubernetes versions
* sometimes we have lagged behind upstream in Fedora and this has
caused some pain. They are on board with containerized
kubernetes as a solution to this problem.
- installing small operating system agents
Isn't this one of the use cases for system containers?
> * have some small agents that need to run as a daemon on the host
> some solutions:
> ^ build own ostree - more maintenance
> ^ package layer - requires reboot
> ^ run in container - large containers for small agents
> ^ run as container that acutally bind mounts in host directories
> ` very small container with just the agent
> ` when container runs it bind mounts in software from the
> host. i.e. using the hosts python stack. I don't know if
> this will work but just thought of it as we were talking
> today.
> ` i'm sure this may be a bad idea on several levels.
>
> - pre-loading containers on system startup
> * there is a need for being able to load containers on system
> startup into the container runtime. I think jlebon already
> worked on something like this maybe. Either way the idea is that
> we have a service that looks in a certain directory in the
> filesystem for container images and loads them into the runtime
> on startup and then deletes those images (or not depending on
> configuration). One could start a cloud image and mount a volume
> that these images are already loaded into. One could crack open
> the qcow and cp the files in, etc. Doesn't matter how they get
> to the "pre-defined" location, we'll import them.
>
> Dusty
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