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Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2017-05-16 10:07:52 -0400:
> On 16/05/17 09:45 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> >Excerpts from Flavio Percoco's message of 2017-05-15 21:50:23 -0400:
> >> On 15/05/17 11:49 -0700, Michał Jastrzębski wrote:
> >> >On 15 May 2017 at 11:19, Davanum Srinivas <davanum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Sorry for the top post, Michal, Can you please clarify a couple of things:
> >> >>
> >> >> 1) Can folks install just one or two services for their specific scenario?
> >> >
> >> >Yes, that's more of a kolla-ansible feature and require a little bit
> >> >of ansible know-how, but entirely possible. Kolla-k8s is built to
> >> >allow maximum flexibility in that space.
> >> >
> >> >> 2) Can the container images from kolla be run on bare docker daemon?
> >> >
> >> >Yes, but they need to either override our default CMD (kolla_start) or
> >> >provide ENVs requred by it, not a huge deal
> >> >
> >> >> 3) Can someone take the kolla container images from say dockerhub and
> >> >> use it without the Kolla framework?
> >> >
> >> >Yes, there is no such thing as kolla framework really. Our images
> >> >follow stable ABI and they can be deployed by any deploy mechanism
> >> >that will follow it. We have several users who wrote their own deploy
> >> >mechanism from scratch.
> >> >
> >> >Containers are just blobs with binaries in it. Little things that we
> >> >add are kolla_start script to allow our config file management and
> >> >some custom startup scripts for things like mariadb to help with
> >> >bootstrapping, both are entirely optional.
> >>
> >> Just as a bonus example, TripleO is currently using kolla images. They used to
> >> be vanilla and they are not anymore but only because TripleO depends on puppet
> >> being in the image, which has nothing to do with kolla.
> >>
> >> Flavio
> >>
> >
> >When you say "using kolla images," what do you mean? In upstream
> >CI tests? On contributors' dev/test systems? Production deployments?
> 
> All of them. Note that TripleO now builds its own "kolla images" (it uses the
> kolla Dockerfiles and kolla-build) because the dependency of puppet. When I
> said, TripleO uses kolla images was intended to answer Dims question on whether
> these images (or Dockerfiles) can be consumed by other projects.
> 
> Flavio
> 

Ah, OK. So TripleO is using the build instructions for kolla images, but
not the binary images being produced today?

Doug