Josh Berkus <jber...@redhat.com> writes: > Folks, > > For some historical reason, we're shipping Fedora Atomic Host with a > lot of the required container toolchain built into the host system. > That is, kubernetes, etcd, flannel, and probably other tools are on > the base system, not in containers. This has some problems: > > 1. it's inconsistent with the "containerize everything" approach, and > isn't how Docker users from outside RH are used to installing them. > > 2. it means that any of the frequent updates to these tools force a > host restart when the new ostree loads > > 3. for etcd, it forces a ratio of 1:1 between etcd nodes to atomic hosts > > 4. it prevents users from running a different version, for example if > they want to jump into Kubernetes 1.1. Let alone if they want to swap > Consul for etcd. > > What would be involved in moving towards putting all of these tools > into containers, instead?
FYI, I am working on running etcd and flannel in a container. It involves running them in a runc container, before Docker starts. Discussions going on here: https://github.com/projectatomic/atomic/issues/298 Regards, Giuseppe
