There's a fairly old PR in Fedora-Dockerfiles that I should revive around some of this:
https://github.com/fedora-cloud/Fedora-Dockerfiles/pull/112 On Feb 12, 2016 12:03 PM, "Josh Berkus" <jber...@redhat.com> wrote: > Folks, > > For some historical reason, we're shipping Fedora Atomic Host with a lot > of the required container toolchain built into the host system. That is, > kubernetes, etcd, flannel, and probably other tools are on the base system, > not in containers. This has some problems: > > 1. it's inconsistent with the "containerize everything" approach, and > isn't how Docker users from outside RH are used to installing them. > > 2. it means that any of the frequent updates to these tools force a host > restart when the new ostree loads > > 3. for etcd, it forces a ratio of 1:1 between etcd nodes to atomic hosts > > 4. it prevents users from running a different version, for example if they > want to jump into Kubernetes 1.1. Let alone if they want to swap Consul > for etcd. > > What would be involved in moving towards putting all of these tools into > containers, instead? > > -- > -- > Josh Berkus > Project Atomic > Red Hat OSAS > >
