On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Davanum Srinivas <dava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good points, Dan and John. > > At this point it may be useful to see who is actually using > nova-docker. Can folks who are using any version of nova-docker, > please speak up with a short description of their use case? > I am using Kilo in a multi-hypervisor mode, some applications running on Docker containers and some backend work provisioned as VMs. > > Thanks, > dims > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Dan Smith <d...@danplanet.com> wrote: > >> +1 Agreed nested containers are a thing. Its a great reason to keep > >> our LXC driver. > > > > I don't think that's a reason we should keep our LXC driver, because you > > can still run containers in containers with other things. If anything, > > using a nova vm-like container to run application-like containers inside > > them is going to beg the need to tweak more detailed things on the > > vm-like container to avoid restricting the application one, I think. > > > > IMHO, the reason to keep the seldom-used, not-that-useful LXC driver in > > nova is because it's nearly free. It is the libvirt driver with a few > > conditionals to handle different things when necessary for LXC. The > > docker driver is a whole other nova driver to maintain, with even less > > applicability to being a system container (IMHO). > > > >> I am keen we set the right expectations here. If you want to treat > >> docker containers like VMs, thats OK. > >> > >> I guess a remaining concern is the driver dropping into diss-repair > >> if most folks end up using Magnum when they want to use docker. > > > > I think this is likely the case and I'd like to avoid getting into this > > situation again. IMHO, this is not our target audience, it's very much > > not free to just put it into the tree because "meh, some people might > > like it instead of the libvirt-lxc driver". > > > > --Dan > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 >
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