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[Dmitry Ilyin <dilyin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It neither easy nor good idea to rewrite Exec type.
Let's make Docker native resoure  to controll docker instead.
Or maybe there are already some implementations that doesn't suck.


2014-02-10 Vladimir Kuklin <vkuklin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Matt
>
> You can easily rewrite puppet modules by writing Puppet provider for
> Docker exec and applying puppet defaults class by class: e.g:
>
> Exec {provider=>Docker, ENV=>"export container_id=#{ID}"}
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Bogdan Dobrelya <bdobrelia@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On 02/10/2014 03:07 PM, Dmitry Ilyin wrote:
>> > Actually it's a very promising idea to move to atomic lxc container for
>> > our master node.
>> >
>> > Volumes used to run these containers could be packaged and easily
>> > installed or updated by just replacing the file by the new version.
>> > Container will also be compleatly independent and any changing would not
>> > break any neighbour container. (Well... except database structures...)
>> >
>> > Such containers will be able to speak to each other through unix or tcp
>> > sockets.
>> > Building such containers will require us to invent some automated system
>> > but their installation and use would be much more reliable then our
>> > current technology.
>> > This method can also combine configuration flexibility of
>> > puppet-deployed nodes with speed and reliability of image-based
>> > provisioned systems.
>> >
>> > We should also look into using the same approach for controller and even
>> > compute nodes. It could help us to find solution to our long lasting
>> > OpenStack upgrading problem.
>> AFIK, the main issue of Openstack upgrades is DB schema related (all
>> objects must have a versioning info, see
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/unified-object-model, for
>> example). I doubt docker could help here. Please correct me, If I'm wrong.
>> >
>> >
>> > 2014-02-10 Evgeniy L <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
>> >
>> >     Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> >     As many of you may already know we started design/implementation of
>> >     master node upgrade feature. Here you can read the design document
>> >     <
>> https://docs.google.com/a/mirantis.com/document/d/1Mem9LP7ysaHNNSltlCLPw36jHix5ULlKmsMgTViHfog/
>> >.
>> >
>> >
>> >     So, it's just status update of this feature.
>> >
>> >     We want to use docker as containers management tool.
>> >
>> >
>> >     *Here is Docker’s pros and cons*
>> >
>> >     Pros
>> >
>> >     +
>> >
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17989306/what-does-docker-add-to-just-plain-lxc
>> >
>> >     + rest API (it will be very useful in case of plugins, when we’ll be
>> >     able to setup new container from inside another container)
>> >
>> >     + lxc requires us to design our own build process and networking
>> >
>> >     + docker has a standard dockerfile format and tools to build images
>> >     and store them in git and do version management
>> >
>> >     Cons
>> >
>> >     - additional complexity
>> >
>> >     - non-persistent containers, it can be solved with volumes
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.tech-d.net/2013/12/16/persistent-volumes-with-docker-container-as-volume-pattern/
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.offermann.us/2013/12/tiny-docker-pieces-loosely-joined.html
>> >
>> >     http://crosbymichael.com/advanced-docker-volumes.html
>> >
>> >     - regarding non-persistent containers will be a lot of questions
>> >     like “I patched nailgun but when I rerun container all changes are
>> >     gone” (can be solved with documentation)
>> >
>> >
>> >     Let us know if you have any ideas or questions.
>> >
>> >     Thanks
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Bogdan Dobrelya,
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