On 08/15/2018 03:32 AM, Cédric Jeanneret wrote: > Dear Community, > > As you may know, a move toward Podman as replacement of Docker is starting. > > One of the issues with podman is the lack of daemon, precisely the lack > of a socket allowing to send commands and get a "computer formatted > output" (like JSON or YAML or...). > > In order to work that out, Podman has added support for varlink¹, using > the "socket activation" feature in Systemd. > > On my side, I would like to push forward the integration of varlink in > TripleO deployed containers, especially since it will allow the following: > # proper interface with Paunch (via python link) > > # a way to manage containers from within specific containers (think > "healthcheck", "monitoring") by mounting the socket as a shared volume > > # a way to get container statistics (think "metrics") > > # a way, if needed, to get an ansible module being able to talk to > podman (JSON is always better than plain text) > > # a way to secure the accesses to Podman management (we have to define > how varlink talks to Podman, maybe providing dedicated socket with > dedicated rights so that we can have dedicated users for specific tasks) > > That said, I have some questions: > ° Does any of you have some experience with varlink and podman interface? > ° What do you think about that integration wish? > ° Does any of you have concern with this possible addition? > > Thank you for your feedback and ideas. > > Have a great day (or evening, or whatever suits the time you're reading > this ;))! > > C. > > > ¹ https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2018/05/podman-varlink/ > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
How might this effect upgrades? -J -- Jason E. Rist Senior Software Engineer OpenStack User Interfaces Red Hat, Inc. Freenode: jrist github/twitter: knowncitizen __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
