On 03/03/2016 10:25 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I'm currently working on better setting up my laptop (running Fedora > 23, upgraded from F22) for working with Docker, and hitting a couple > of major barriers: > > * the default Fedora Workstation partitioning (at least back in F22) > heavily favoured "/home" storage over "/" storage (which is sensible > for many cases, but markedly less good if you have docker & libvirt > putting a lot of content in /var) > * http://www.projectatomic.io/docs/docker-storage-recommendation/ not > only makes my eyes glaze over, but also assumes your available storage > isn't already fully allocated > > (I haven't encountered it myself yet, but I'm also told that > Kubernetes can hit deadlock bugs when running against a Docker daemon > using the loopback device rather than devicemapper) > > In my particular case, I'm in the process of reclaiming the old > never-actually-used Windows partition on this system and reallocating > that to "/" and docker-storage-setup, but that's not a particularly > desirable thing to be asking developers to do to get a solid > environment for container based development. > > So what I'm wondering is whether or not it might make sense for us to > explore ways to offer an alternate partitioning scheme for Anaconda > that was tailored to container based development, rather than > expecting people to reconfigure their system post-installation? (The > system reconfiguration instructions would still be desirable, but > could hopefully be made less frequently needed, especially in > centrally managed environments) > > Regards, > Nick. > > P.S. You may ask, "Why not just use Vagrant?", and there are a few > answers to that: > > * I shouldn't *need* it on Fedora, so if folks are still finding > getting setting up for native container based development too hard, > that's a problem to be fixed rather than worked around > * it adds yet another layer to my dev environment that can go wrong > * my SSD is only 512 GB, so virt images add up > * it's a second system for me to have to keep up to date > * a proliferation of virt bridges makes the NetworkManager applet more > annoying to use (especially when it already has a few wireless > networks and VPNs defined) >
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