On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:45:52PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
I think this combinatorial explosion problem is why offering a lot
of
prebuilt images is the wrong way to go with this. The desire to do so is
a reflection of the fact that the tooling for building and managing
Docker images is still relatively immature - I don't know exactly when
Koji was written, but I'd suggest that the current state of Docker image
management is, at best, where the RPM build process would have been
pre-Koji.
Instead of offering a wide array of prebuilt images, I think OpenShift
Origin are going in the right direction with v3, taking full advantage
of the notion of composable layers in the design of Docker:
https://openshift.github.io/documentation/openshift-pep-010-docker-cartri...
I agree that this is totally the way to go eventually and as soon as
possible. However, I also think that we should cover the image approach in
the meantime, and possibly some of the basics will always be useful.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader