About a month+ ago I raised a topic related to templates and was directed to posting on the Dev mailing list instead of this one. I recommend you might do the same.
Although I'm not deeply involved with others, 1. Only as an aside, I also mentioned the use of another language but instead recommended a cross-platform language like ruby or nodejs if considered. But, in general I wouldn't recommend that just because it introduces dependency requirements just to access and run what should easily work using a universal scripting language. 2. I have started, but not been able to spend much time recently on improving available "create" scripts. In particular, I found a. Typically "create" scripts mainly worked only creating a Container with the same distro as the Host. b. After studying some scripts, I selected and proposed a standardized architecture which would be flexible and accommodate the many ways that Containers are launched on different distros, and the many ways Container source are invoked (eg as bootstrap images, by main or special repos, various network protocols, package management, etc) But, I haven't been able to devote the required to time to actually build working solutions. In all likelihood I find I might need to deploy each supported distro and actually inspect how they create Containers, then revise the existing process to conform with the universal standardized process I provided. Not especially difficult but time-consuming. The standardized template script I proposed would almost certainly make all supported distros deployable as Containers on any *NIX. HTH, Tony On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Fatih Arslan <fthar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I just started to play around with some testing containers. And the > first thing that hits me was using templates when using 'lxc-create. > Here are several templates: > https://github.com/lxc/lxc/tree/master/templates that can be for > example installed on ubuntu with 'apt-get install lxc-templates'. > > And all these templates are basically bash scripts. I thought maybe > using a scripting language like Pyton, Ruby, etc.. and creating them > manually would be better (instead of using those bash scripts). I have > several questions: > > 1. Why are the templates based on bash script, and not using some internal > api? > 2. Is the preferred way to create an lxc with templates these bash > scripts?, or it's better when I create them manually (for example with > a custom Python script). > 3. Is investing time on creating a template with bash the time worth > when I can use my favorite language to create them? > > I'm trying to find some answers about templates and any answer or > experiences on this would be helpful. > > Thanks in advance > > Regards > > -- > Fatih Arslan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that > developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white > paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep > Android apps secure. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Lxc-users mailing list > Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
