Also just as an aside, being able to run system containers and not precanned Docker applications would seem to certainly be a missing feature that Mesos could benefit from, as it would allow sysadmins to spin up vanilla Ubuntu, Centos, Debian etc images without doing something funky like using the Docker image and tailing /dev/null. :)
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Tom Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks guys. I do a lot of work with the juju ecosystem and lxc containers > to deploy workloads with that, for example multi node big top clusters etc. > It's far more flexible using LXC system containers than pre configured app > containers. This works on cloud and bare metal but I'd also like to be able > to deploy containers to Mesos using the same technology stack. > > Cheers > Tom > > On 6 Oct 2016 00:51, "Jie Yu" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tom, > > > > I'm looking to add LXC/LXD support, POC initially then hopefully bake it > > > into some Mesos libraries. From what I can tell Mesos doesn't have > hooks > > > for LXC in the new container setup and also the External Shim that was > > > underdevelopment is Deprecated. Sound roughly accurate so far? > > > > > > Yup. External containerizer has been deprecated and removed. The > direction > > is to maintain only one containerizer in the future, and make that > > containerizer better and supports various containerization requests. > > > > If so, would extending the Unified Containerizer be the correct way to go > > > about adding LXC/LXD support? > > > > > > Yes, I would prefer exploring this direction. But even before that, it > > would be nice to understand the motivation for using lxd. I'd prefer we > > find out the feature gap and augment unified containerizer to fill the > gap. > > > > - Jie > > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Tom Barber <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello folks, > > > > > > I've been Googling Mesos container support a bit recently, I see > support > > > for Mesos(AppC) and Docker in the latest versions. > > > > > > I'm looking to add LXC/LXD support, POC initially then hopefully bake > it > > > into some Mesos libraries. From what I can tell Mesos doesn't have > hooks > > > for LXC in the new container setup and also the External Shim that was > > > underdevelopment is Deprecated. Sound roughly accurate so far? > > > > > > If so, would extending the Unified Containerizer be the correct way to > go > > > about adding LXC/LXD support? ( > > > http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/container-image/) > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Tom > > > > > >
