On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:33:42PM -0400, Jay Pipes wrote: > Can I use your Dockerfiles to build Ubuntu/Debian images instead of only > Fedora images?
Not easily, no. > Seems to me that the image-based Docker system makes the > resulting container quite brittle -- since a) you can't use configuration > management systems like Ansible to choose which operating system or package > management tools you wish to use... While that's true, it seems like a non-goal. You're not starting with a virtual machine and a blank disk here, you're starting from an existing filesystem. I'm not sure I understand your use case enough to give you a more useful reply. > So... what am I missing with this? What makes Docker images more ideal than > straight up LXC containers and using Ansible to control upgrades/changes to > configuration of the software on those containers? I think that in general that Docker images are more share-able, and the layered model makes building components on top of a base image both easy and reasonably efficient in terms of time and storage. I think that Ansible makes a great tool for managing configuration inside Docker containers, and you could easily use it as part of the image build process. Right now, people using Docker are basically writing shell scripts to perform system configuration, which is like a 20 year step back in time. Using a more structured mechanism for doing this is a great idea, and one that lots of people are pursuing. I have looked into using Puppet as part of both the build and runtime configuration process, but I haven't spent much time on it yet. A key goal for Docker images is generally that images are "immutable", or at least "stateless". You don't "yum upgrade" or "apt-get upgrade" in a container; you generate a new image with new packages/code/etc. This makes it trivial to revert to a previous version of a deployment, and clearly separates the "build the image" process from the "run the application" process. I like this model. -- Lars Kellogg-Stedman <l...@redhat.com> | larsks @ {freenode,twitter,github} Cloud Engineering / OpenStack | http://blog.oddbit.com/
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