On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:58 AM Martin Verges <martin.verges@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > There is no "should be", there is no one answer to that, other than 42. > Containers have been there before Docker, but Docker made them popular, > exactly for the same reason as why Ceph wants to use them: ship a known > good version (CI tests) of the software with all dependencies, that can be > run "as is" on any supported platform. > > So ship it tested for container software XXX and run it on YYY. How will > that benefit me as a user? There are differences when running a docker > container, lxc, nspawn, podman, kubernetes and whatever. So you trade error > A for error B. There are even problems with containers if you don't use > version X from docker. That's what the past told us, why should it be > better in the future with even more container environments. Have you tried > running rancher on debian in the past? It breaks apart due to iptables or > other stuff. Rook is based on kubernetes, and cephadm on podman or docker. These are well-defined runtimes. Yes, some have bugs, but our experience so far has been a big improvement over the complexity of managing package dependencies across even just a handful of distros. (Podman has been the only real culprit here, tbh, but I give them a partial pass as the tool is relatively new.) _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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