Re: [atomic-devel] Consolidating some bits with OpenShift?

[Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty redhat com>]

On 07/29/2015 10:36 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A while ago I posted about duplicate Ansible and Vagrant work going on:
> https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic-devel/2015-April/msg00027.html
>
> Now, OpenShift is another large project building on top of the same
> technologies as Project Atomic, such as Kubernetes.
>
> I recently went through their excellent training guide:
> https://github.com/openshift/training
>
> On the topic of this post, most of the heavy lifting is performed by
> the OpenShift Ansible code:
>
> https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible/
>
> And I like this code base a lot - it's excellent code.
>
> I know Eric Paris has been doing more work on moving
> https://github.com/eparis/kubernetes-ansible
> into upstream kubernetes.
>
> How can we share some of this work?  My strawman
> here is that openshift-ansible should learn how to deploy
> "vanilla" $distro and $distro Atomic Host as well, for
> organizations that don't want the PaaS portion but do
> want "Kube style" infrastructure.

+1 . This will be useful. I too agrees with the fact that organizations 
might want to deploy Atomic hosts without the PaaS portion.

> Can openshift-ansible pull in any work from the upstream
> Kube ansible work?  E.g. via copy/paste with a canonical
> upstream in kube?
>
> There's obviously a lot more that could potentially be shared
> better with OpenShift beyond just the installer/ansible, but
> I think it's a useful starting point.
>
> Any other thoughts here?