Hi Hongbin Lu,

Thanks for your reply. I have responded inline.

BRs,
Hieu LE.

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Hongbin Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> 1. What is the pros/cons of deployment containers on VMs comparing with
> >> containers on bare metal? I have seen RackSpace providing their
> >> container service on bare metal and some other providers, but Amazon
> >> use container on VM instead.
> >> The only problem I saw with container on VM is only about management of
> >> quota and resources. Deploying containers on VM will lead us to think
> >> about whether we need to provide more containers on x VM for user or we
> >> need to provide x+1 VMs for user to scale based on their needs. There
> >> are 2 layers for operators to manage: 1st is VMs quota/resources and
> >> 2nd is containers.
> > [Hongbin Lu] Agree with you that containers on VMs are more complex to 
> > manage. There are other cons as well. For example, networking and storage 
> > are harder to setup. It is slower to scale up (because the speed to spin up 
> > VMs is not as fast as spinning up containers). In comparison, there are 
> > several pros. First, running containers on VMs provide strong isolation 
> > between containers of different tenants. Second, it can reuse the same 
> > resource pool to run VMs and containers (instead of creating a dedicated 
> > resource pool for running containers).

Yeah, multi-tenancy is the good point of containers on VM but the
second pros can lead to complex managements.

> >
> >> 2. Currently Magnum is on her way to implement the integration with
> >> Ironic but I can not see the clearer way to keep track about this
> >> feature (I have read the etherpad of Magnum team after summit). My team
> >> really want to contribute in this feature but we need something clearer
> >> to make a decision. Can you provide us some specs or related bp?
> > [Hongbin Lu] Here is the BP: 
> > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/magnum/+spec/magnum-baremetal-full-support 
> > . Currently, we have the Heat templates to provision k8s on top of Ironic 
> > instances. The next step is to introduce an ironic bay to deliver the full 
> > support. Spyros (the BP owner) will report the latest status every weeks in 
> > the Magnum team meeting, so you can keep track of the status there. I 
> > encourage you to contact Spyros if you want to contribute in this feature. 
> > I believe Spyros will coordinate the efforts.

Thank you, we will start investigating at this BP.

>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hieu LE.
>>
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