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

[RJ Nowling <rnowling redhat com>]

I realize the admin could create a Dockerfile, build the image, and add to a repo.  But if there is not an existing 1-step solution, it would be great to have something a wrapper that does that.

Something like:

./rpm-to-image repo image-name rpm


Related question: is there a plan for how admins would administer the config of the Atomic hosts using Ansible or something similar?  I know most of the config will be lightweight but an automated provisioning system might still be desired.  With everything running in containers, most Ansible modules probably won't work without significant modifications.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christoph Görn" <goern redhat com>
> To: "RJ Nowling" <rnowling redhat com>
> Cc: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:04:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] Running ISV-supplied Management Tools
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA256
> 
> Its exactly what we want admins to do: provide the tools they need in
> a company wide and company specific SPC. The atomic host itself will
> be 'agmented' or 'extended' by containers, not by putting some
> binaries on the disk.
> 
> 	//G
> 
> On 05/19/2015 04:56 PM, RJ Nowling wrote:
> > 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
> >> 
> > 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 ?
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> - --
> Principal Software Engineer - Systems Design & Engineering
> Mobile: +49 171 2801345
> 
> Follow Us: https://twitter.com/RedHatRefArch
> Plus Us: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/114152126783830728030/
> Like Us: https://www.facebook.com/rhrefarch
> 
> Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/ Sitz: Grasbrunn,
> Handelsregister: Amtsgericht München, HRB 153243
> Geschäftsführer: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill,
> Charles Peters
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v2
> 
> iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVW1D0AAoJEKn71953Oyo0aWgQAJfVjb6s3A77itCsYzi5+CzO
> 16moqfF0Qzp0g5Gy4JGT9cw6f+Wmj1OYyv4gk+cquzthdZNy++VQ1Wvc8jiRZwJn
> TVxZMO7WpqDMtXrx/KD5CXz2szseV7BrA1aFvIW5zvxJl0VhlOkhkZOrBgONWoa/
> be2iu/skqR8tTWscfCEspDF7aMlVztRF/BZAV1yT42vqfPu3zgfG2iznC7QYbgaP
> w5MvjIlrF5HFxN1Rvv66OMyS7D5D4LSN6JlDFn9bAj26mfAzOWsFHqSAZA053KD2
> s9XR+JCjpvBQ0dqh9LrX2Ad88YM/JNwkHf+JIYFab2NgxHBtrAlTg52OWHxgSjd5
> h7Dm7oFBc9pQvtvf37PismqXnrIcJtGHVQ97IxFfmVFaOZZf9ahckVCp4vq6oA7n
> sN8z78r9Aj4dwsq8uYbSxPy3pMKWAfsBcu1KFY6NlZqKF7dRL8teJdPDvUcOJlxV
> aWkWojAzN2ep8YgK4huiSbdeAe4JXV7MP9qJYWA6o1YF8GmJgqXtjA96kl4Jjwqy
> AGlRTaDkTcaj7cs0nN3G+7T83rUGCnEpMrfRMwXlwABgamAEGmIXl5gQaW5jcMtQ
> w7OeNz6CjG1f+qSV0Z6BCVm5zXb35iHv04MeeTm+thdmH65Ge8KPWJI+z+J9aPnB
> W1sfXm9UO1oUm9ATiK1k
> =2HQ4
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>