Recently, I blogged about docker-on-loopback-storage woes and workarounds – a topic that came up during several conversations I had at last month’s Dockercon. Another frequently-discussed item from the conference involved Docker on CentOS 6, and whether and for how long users can count on running this combination.
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I’ve heard negative things about the Fedora|CentOS Docker storage configuration in the past, and while manning the Red Hat booth in San Francisco at DockerCon last week, I spoke to a number of people who’ve experienced these storage issues themselves.
Much of the trouble, I think, boils down to how Docker in Fedora and CentOS have shipped with a storage configuration that optimizes for a convenient getting started experience that can lead to inconvenience down the road.
via Friends Don't Let Friends Run Docker on Loopback in Production — Project Atomic.
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Just over a week ago, I headed to the outskirts of San Francisco’s Financial District to attend Container Camp, a one-day, single-track conference focused primarily on the Docker ecosystem.
The Container Camp lineup included a nice mix of project talks and real user stories that left me looking forward to attending the next time the crew comes to town, and thinking back on the key issues raised during the event.
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Next week in Los Angeles, I’ll be giving a talk at the SCALE 13x conference on oVirt’s new OptaPlanner-powered scheduling adviser.
Martin Sivák wrote a great post about the feature a couple of months ago, but didn’t cover its installation process, which still has a few rough edges.
Read on to learn how to install the optimizer, and start applying fancy probabilistic fu to your oVirt VM launches and migrations.
via Trying out oVirt's Probabilistic Optimizer — Red Hat Open Source Community.
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Atomic hosts are meant to be as slim as possible, with a bare minimum of applications and services built-in, and everything else running in containers. However, what counts as your bare minimum is sure to differ from mine, particularly when we’re running our Atomic hosts in different environments.
For instance, I’m frequently testing and using Atomic hosts on my oVirt installation, where it’s handy to have oVirt’s guest agent running, which provides handy information about what’s going on inside of an oVirt-hosted VM. If you aren’t using oVirt, though, there’s no reason to carry this package around in what’s supposed to be a svelte image.
via Running oVirt's Guest Agent on Atomic as a Privileged Container — Project Atomic.
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RDO, the community-oriented OpenStack distribution for CentOS, Fedora, and their kin, is super-easy to get up and running, as a recently posted YouTube video illustrates:
At the end of the process, you’ll have a single-node RDO installation on which you can create VM instances and conduct various experimentation. You can even associate your VMs with floating IP addresses, which connect these instances to the “Public” network that’s auto-configured by the installer.
BUT, that’s where things stop being super-easy, and start being super-confusing. The auto-configured Public network I just mentioned will only allow you to access your VMs from the single RDO machine hosting those VMs. RDO’s installer knows nothing about your specific network environment, so coming up with a more useful single-node OpenStack installation takes some more configuration.
via RDO Quickstart: Doing the Neutron Dance — Red Hat Open Source Community.
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Back in November, I wrote about how to try out Kubernetes, the open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, using Atomic Hosts. In that post, I walked through a deployment of the Kubernetes project’s multicontainer “Hello World” application.
This time, I thought I’d explore running a more real-world application on Kubernetes, while looking into a few alternate methods of spinning up a Kubernetes cluster.
For the application, I picked Gitlab, an open source code collaboration platform that resembles and works like the popular Github service. I run a Gitlab instance internally here at work, and I wanted to explore moving that application from its current, virtual machine-based home, toward a shiny new containerized future.
via Deploying a Containerized Gitlab Instance with Kubernetes — Project Atomic.
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This week, Fedora 21 (a.k.a., the release that must not be named) hit FTPs mirrors everywhere, with a feature list led by a new organizational structure for the distribution. Fedora is now organized into three separate flavors: Workstation, Server, and Cloud.
Fedora’s Cloud flavor is further divided into a “traditional” base image for deploying the distribution on your cloud of choice, and an Atomic Host image into which Fedora’s team of cloud wranglers has herded a whole series of futuristic operating system technologies.
via Fedora 21: Fedora Goes Atomic — Red Hat Open Source Community.
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Atomic hosts include Kubernetes for orchestration and management of containerized application deployments, across a cluster of container hosts. If you’re interested in taking Kubernetes for a spin on an Atomic host, read on!
via Testing Kubernetes with an Atomic Host — Project Atomic.
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Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote about how to deploy the virtualization, storage, and management elements of the new oVirt 3.5 release on a single machine. Today, we’re going to add two more machines to the mix, which will enable us to bring down one machine at a time for maintenance while allowing the rest of the deployment to continue its virtual machine hosting duties uninterrupted.
via Up and Running with oVirt 3.5, Part Two — Red Hat Open Source Community.
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