Re: Anaconda Docker addon review needed

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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:57:24PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> 
> > That would just complicate things. Anaconda is already setting up the
> > system, already using blivet, and already executing the kickstart. I see
> > no benefit in trying to integrate docker-storage-setup into that, it is
> > really meant for a completely different situation AFAIK.
> 
> The thing is that in cloud and pxe-to-live we need the storage to be set
> up dynamically.  Anaconda is run on the server side and generates
> an image, then on boot is where the host allocates storage as
> desired based on configuration (cloud-init metadata).
> 
> So there is a lot of overlap in that we want the ability to do the
> same things when doing an ISO install on a system using Anaconda,
> as well as importing an image.
> 
> BTW, one interesting approach taken by:
> https://coreos.com/blog/bare-metal-config-service-coreos.html
> is that it does the partitioning in the initramfs.  This would make
> sense for both cloud and pxe-to-live cases.

Ah, I see, you're thinking about a different scenario than what this
addon covers. I don't think this would be very useful with images, it
is for server setup using kickstart.

-- 
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)

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