Re: [atomic-devel] OSBS Roadmap?

[Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan gmail com>]

On 1 September 2015 at 01:20, Aaron Weitekamp <aweiteka redhat com> wrote:
> I have been confused about what OSBS is. As far as I can tell it's client
> tooling[1] that uses OpenShift v3. In other words, is OSBS just a way to
> *use* OpenShift? If so, how could we have a roadmap for "using" something?
>
> So this is a way to pile on Adam's request for some clarification on what
> OSBS is.

And how it relates to atomic-reactor. As additional context, one of
the topics of discussion that came up during the release engineering
session at Flock was the sheer number of services that need a "docker
image + git repo -> layered docker image" capability, as well as being
able to track the layered images and know which ones need to be
recreated when a lower level image is updated. There's at least:

* OpenShift (Origin/Online/Enterprise)
* Foreman (/Red Hat Satellite)
* Atomic Developer Bundle (/RHEL Container Development Kit)
* Fedora's build infrastructure (koji, maybe DOPR)
* CentOS build infrastructure (including the Community Container Pipeline)
* Red Hat's build infrastructure, and presumably that of other
Fedora/CentOS derived distros

The common components needed across all of them are the build engine
itself (which atomic-reactor appears to have covered), and the layer
dependency tracking when the input images and source repos are
updated. Similar to atomic-reactor, it would be very helpful to be
able to consume the latter component as a standalone capability
independent of a full OpenShift installation.

Regards,
Nick.

P.S. A potential theme appropriate name for the "update needed"
tracking service occurred to me: geiger-counter. Then atomic-reactor +
geiger-counter ~= OSBS :)

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