Everyone appears asleep on IRC so for a non real time response: If I were looking to replicate the docker calls but for LXC, I'd be updating stuff in the containerizer package right? Not the top level appc and docker packages. https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/master/src/slave/containerizer/
Thanks Tom On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Tom Barber <tom.bar...@meteorite.bi> wrote: > 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 <t...@analytical-labs.com> > 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" <yujie....@gmail.com> 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 <tom.bar...@meteorite.bi> >> > 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 >> > > >> > >> > >
