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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Davanum Srinivas <davanum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good points, Dan and John.
>
> At this point it may be useful to see who is actually using
> nova-docker. Can folks who are using any version of nova-docker,
> please speak up with a short description of their use case?
>
I am using Kilo in a multi-hypervisor mode, some applications running on
Docker containers and some backend work provisioned as VMs.

>
> Thanks,
> dims
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Dan Smith <dms at danplanet.com> wrote:
> >> +1 Agreed nested containers are a thing. Its a great reason to keep
> >> our LXC driver.
> >
> > I don't think that's a reason we should keep our LXC driver, because you
> > can still run containers in containers with other things. If anything,
> > using a nova vm-like container to run application-like containers inside
> > them is going to beg the need to tweak more detailed things on the
> > vm-like container to avoid restricting the application one, I think.
> >
> > IMHO, the reason to keep the seldom-used, not-that-useful LXC driver in
> > nova is because it's nearly free. It is the libvirt driver with a few
> > conditionals to handle different things when necessary for LXC. The
> > docker driver is a whole other nova driver to maintain, with even less
> > applicability to being a system container (IMHO).
> >
> >> I am keen we set the right expectations here. If you want to treat
> >> docker containers like VMs, thats OK.
> >>
> >> I guess a remaining concern is the driver dropping into diss-repair
> >> if most folks end up using Magnum when they want to use docker.
> >
> > I think this is likely the case and I'd like to avoid getting into this
> > situation again. IMHO, this is not our target audience, it's very much
> > not free to just put it into the tree because "meh, some people might
> > like it instead of the libvirt-lxc driver".
> >
> > --Dan
> >
> >
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