On 03-07-14 19:01, Jim Fulton wrote:
I'm really hoping that Docker will eventually allow us to stop building system packages though.
Yes. Sounds like you can use whatever method you want to build up a docker image and be done with it.
Hopefully you'll do it in a nicely ordered repeatable way with some combination of fabric/ansible/buildout/puppet/whatever. Things like adding nginx to the docker and symlinking a buildout-generated nginx config file into the /etc/nginx directory suddenly don't run afoul of I-need-to-be-root anymore.
I wonder what this means for buildout :-) Like you said, a docker instance means there's less need for the isolation of buildout (and virtualenv).
On the other hand, buildout could install/adjust things globally in /etc directly, for instance! The "compose a complete application" promise of buildout gets an extra boost this way.
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