On 08/16/2018 12:10 AM, Jason E. Rist wrote: > 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?
What exactly? addition of varlink, or the whole podman thingy? The question was more about "varlink" than "podman" in fact - I should maybe have worded things otherwise... ? > > -J > -- Cédric Jeanneret Software Engineer DFG:DF
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