On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Nirmal Fernando <nirmal070...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Here are my findings on CoreOS, past couple of days. > > - No package manager: CoreOS doesn't have a package manager, and > expect users to use containers (such as Docker) in order to do any real > work. > - It's consisted of Kernel + Containers > - It inherently supports HA clusters based on a VM discovery mechanism. > - CoreOS updates get applied automatically. > - Supports both Docker and nspawn (even light weight than Docker) > containers. > - Uses Systemd > - System management daemon > - Services, timers and one-off jobs > - Logging support through Journal. > - Uses etcd > - A key-value database > - provides service discovery for cluster > - similar to consul & zookeeper > - Uses Fleet (similar to Mesos) > - For cluster level service management > - Schedules jobs across nodes in a cluster > - Reschedules units of failure > - Can initialize from a cloud-config file > - Uses a discovery endpoint to find out the members of a cluster (we > can plug our own discovery service). > > Also, I was successfully able to spin up a CoreOS cluster in EC2. Further, > I will work on CoreOS-Stratos integration. > > Great finding Nirmal! > -- > Best Regards, > Nirmal > > Nirmal Fernando. > PPMC Member & Committer of Apache Stratos, > Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. > > Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/ > -- Lakmal Warusawithana Vice President, Apache Stratos Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc. Mobile : +94714289692 Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/
