On 10/01/2014 08:39 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:45:52PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I think this combinatorial explosion problem is why offering a lot of
> prebuilt images is the wrong way to go with this. The desire to do so is
> a reflection of the fact that the tooling for building and managing
> Docker images is still relatively immature - I don't know exactly when
> Koji was written, but I'd suggest that the current state of Docker image
> management is, at best, where the RPM build process would have been
> pre-Koji.
>
> Instead of offering a wide array of prebuilt images, I think OpenShift
> Origin are going in the right direction with v3, taking full advantage
> of the notion of composable layers in the design of Docker:
>
https://openshift.github.io/documentation/openshift-pep-010-docker-cartri...
I agree that this is totally the way to go eventually and as soon as
possible. However, I also think that we should cover the image approach in
the meantime, and possibly some of the basics will always be useful.
Aye, Vaclav and Marcela persuaded me I was wrong at this week's WG
meeting - there's likely something simpler we can do in the meantime,
even if it has scalability issues.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Hosted & Shared Services
Software Engineering & Development, Brisbane
HSS Provisioning Architect