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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:12 AM Marcin Juszkiewicz
<marcin.juszkiewicz at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> W dniu 05.05.2020 o 15:56, Bogdan Dobrelya pisze:
> > Let's for a minute imagine that each of the raised concerns is
> > addressable. And as a thought experiment, let's put here WHAT has to
> > be addressed for Kolla w/o the need of abandoning it for a custom
> > tooling:
>
> >> 1) input image (centos/ubi0/ubuntu/clear/whatever)
> >
> > * support ubi8 base images
>
> "kolla-build --base-image ubi8" has you covered. Or you can provide a
> patch which will switch to ubi8 for some of existing targets. Easy,
> really.
>

Yea my list wasn't saying kolla had deficiencies for anything, but
rather the core concepts that are needed for something like this.
Infact kolla does tick the boxes for all of these however may be
opinionated in some areas (e.g. building has to use docker) which may
not make sense for others to consume. It might also not be in the best
interest of the project to actually push support for alternative
solutions if there isn't a larger demand from the community.

> >> 2) Packaging method for the application (source/rpm/dpkg/magic)
> >
> > * abstract away all the packaging methods (at least above the base
> > image) to some (better?) DSL perhaps
>
> What is DSL? Digital Subscriber Line? Did Something Likeable? Droids
> Supporting Legacy?
>

domain-specific language. The proposal kinda includes something to
that effect that lets us define a yaml with a specific structure which
gets turned into a dockerfile equivalent.

> I decided to not follow rest of discussion. Let you guys invent
> something interesting and working. I can just follow then.
>

Yea I feel like we're going in circles now. Feel free to follow the
spec and if it makes sense to contribute it elsewhere or move it we
can discuss that later.  Right now we're working on something that we
think addresses our specific needs without having to re-write
significant portions of other projects and impacting everyone. It may
not make sense for everyone, but we're investigating it for V.

Thanks,
-Alex