What is tree file? On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, > > So as of 1.0, we will have an excellent packager format for > Atomic/Nulecule apps and the Atomic platform. However, what we will not > have is a tool which makes it easier for developers to package their > applications. I think that's something we can do, but we'll need to build > 2.0 to do it. The goal is to have an atomic.app which saves developers > work, so that they *want* to use it. > > Here's the main areas I can see where we can make atomic.app better for > developers in priority order: > > 1. File Generation: right now atomic.app requires typing out/copying > multiple files in multiple locations, most of which are duplicative of > standard templates or each other. Really, we should be able to take just a > tree file alone from the user and generate all of the other files, except > in the "advanced" cases. All of the other files are derivative of that > tree file and 3rd-party APIs. > > 2. Security and Permissions: we need a way for developers to be able to > use their chosen tools on their desktop, but still use atomic.app to build > apps (see prior email). As a bonus, we could offer the ability to set > SELinux permission requirements as part of the atomic.app format; that > would not only make atomic.app valuable, it would ease the tendency of > developers to just disable SELinux. > > 3. Integrated Image Build: as the next step, it would really help > developers if we could build their images (e.g. myuser/mywebapp), register > them, and then deploy them via atomic app as one command. This would mean > that users would just provide a tree file and a set of source code repos > (with dockerfiles) and one command would do the rest. > > Now, I'm not wedded to any particular way to accomplish the above; whether > it's via atomic.app, Cockpit integration, or even Ansible is fine with me > as long as the installation and the steps are simple. > > Thoughts? > > -- > -- > Josh Berkus > Project Atomic > Red Hat OSAS > > _______________________________________________ > Container-tools mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/container-tools > -- Developer Experience Team Brno, Czech Republic Phone: +420 739 666 824
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