On 10/25/2016 03:23 PM, Alexander Rilik wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 10:40:24 AM UTC+2, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
Unless you get your hands dirty, chances are low. I haven't heard of
many users of libvirt-nonKVM in our community.
I would like to jump into this since I'm in a similar situation to Alvin.
We recently started experimenting with LXD, a Canonical product that
extends on top of LXC.
After some initial lack of enthusiasm I rapidly found myself literally
loving this tool: the technology is easy to understand, capable and
solid, at the point that I'm planning to convert most of our VMs to
this container technology.
LXD is unfortunately lacking a pre-made orchestration frontend and I
see Foreman as the perfect candidate to complete the puzzle:
1. select container profile (network/cpu/disk constraints, OS, etc.)
2. deploy
3. eventually destroy if short lived
The big advantage compared to docker lies in the functionality of
LX(C)/LXD: while Docker is a process-oriented container technology,
LXC is an OS oriented one, hence it could be an almost 1-to-1
replacement for fatter and more resource intensive full VMs while
incrementing the density on the host tenfold.
If only I had the programming skills I'd start working on such a
plugin since I see real benefits. I can understand it's not so
widespread, hence the lack of support.
Nicola
Libvirt does claim to support LXC so extending foreman is a possiblity.
I guess the thing for me is that I have a bunch of things on the go and
I can help to code and test parts of the changes to fog to support xen
and others but I am not in a position to build up a whole foreman
development environment.
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