Good points, Dan and John. At this point it may be useful to see who is actually using nova-docker. Can folks who are using any version of nova-docker, please speak up with a short description of their use case?
Thanks, dims On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Dan Smith <d...@danplanet.com> wrote: >> +1 Agreed nested containers are a thing. Its a great reason to keep >> our LXC driver. > > I don't think that's a reason we should keep our LXC driver, because you > can still run containers in containers with other things. If anything, > using a nova vm-like container to run application-like containers inside > them is going to beg the need to tweak more detailed things on the > vm-like container to avoid restricting the application one, I think. > > IMHO, the reason to keep the seldom-used, not-that-useful LXC driver in > nova is because it's nearly free. It is the libvirt driver with a few > conditionals to handle different things when necessary for LXC. The > docker driver is a whole other nova driver to maintain, with even less > applicability to being a system container (IMHO). > >> I am keen we set the right expectations here. If you want to treat >> docker containers like VMs, thats OK. >> >> I guess a remaining concern is the driver dropping into diss-repair >> if most folks end up using Magnum when they want to use docker. > > I think this is likely the case and I'd like to avoid getting into this > situation again. IMHO, this is not our target audience, it's very much > not free to just put it into the tree because "meh, some people might > like it instead of the libvirt-lxc driver". > > --Dan > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev