Hi, On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 16:47 -0500, Dusty Mabe wrote: > I have had a few discussions with Dan and with the Atomic App core > team over the past few weeks. We have recognized some changes that we > can make to Atomic App to make the integration go easier. Below is one > proposed change: > > - atomicapp will now manage instances of applications in a similar > manner to the way docker does by using IDs rather than the backing > directory locations as arguments to atomicapp. This means that rather > than the atomicapp software notifying you of a directory path where > your application can be managed from, it will now hand you an ID you > can use to manage it: > > ``` > atomic install helloapache > --> <idxyz> > atomic edit <idxyz> > --> will open up text editor for answers.conf file ...
Sounds good so far. > As part of this we'd like to make Atomic CLI able to detect if a user > has provided an id or name of an existing "installed" atomicapp. One > crude way to do this is to simply use the directory structure that is > used to manage the atomicapps and making it have a predictable naming > scheme. Do we have, or want, a local directory structure in all cases, though? Eg. if I'm installing a nulecule to the k8s provider, I'm not installing locally at all, I'm installing to the cluster. --Stephen
