Re: [atomic-devel] Running ISV-supplied Management Tools

[RJ Nowling <rnowling redhat com>]

Yes, it's possible that he could have tried creating a SPC with a Dockerfile.  (We were debating whether a SPC would work since the tool exposes new devices in /dev.)  

However, I would argue that is a heavy-weight process.  Maybe we need an easy way for admins to onboard these sorts of CLI tools?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christoph Görn" <goern redhat com>
> To: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 9:47:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] Running ISV-supplied Management Tools
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> Hi there,
>  than a pretty straight fwd Dockerfile should do the job, right?
> 
> 	//G
> 
> On 05/19/2015 04:31 PM, RJ Nowling wrote:
> > To my knowledge, no, it doesn't need to use kernel modules.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Jeremy Eder" <jeder redhat com> To: "RJ Nowling"
> >> <rnowling redhat com> Cc: atomic-devel projectatomic io Sent:
> >> Tuesday, May 19, 2015 8:21:25 AM Subject: Re: [atomic-devel]
> >> Running ISV-supplied Management Tools
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "RJ Nowling" <rnowling redhat com> To:
> >>> atomic-devel projectatomic io Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015
> >>> 10:44:33 AM Subject: [atomic-devel] Running ISV-supplied
> >>> Management Tools
> >>> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> We needed to use a ISV-supplied tool to configure the RAID
> >>> controllers on some machines running Atomic.  The tool is
> >>> packaged as a RPM.  As a quick hack, we ended up just manually
> >>> extracting the files from the RPM to run them.
> >>> 
> >>> What's the preferred solution?  Would super privileged
> >>> containers work for this?
> >> 
> >> Did the tool need to insert kernel modules ?
> >> 
> > 
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