[ClusterLabs] Coming in Pacemaker 1.1.17: container bundles

[Ken Gaillot]

On 07/01/2017 06:47 AM, Valentin Vidic wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:46:29PM -0500, Ken Gaillot wrote:
>> The challenge is that some properties are docker-specific and other
>> container engines will have their own specific properties.
>>
>> We decided to go with a tag for each supported engine -- so if we add
>> support for rkt, we'll add a <rkt> tag with whatever properties it
>> needs. Then a <bundle> would need to contain either a <docker> tag or a
>> <rkt> tag.
>>
>> We did consider a generic alternative like:
>>
>>   <container type="docker">
>>      <meta_attributes id="docker-meta">
>>          <nvpair id="docker-meta-1" name="image" value="pcmk:httpd"/>
>>          ...
>>      </meta_attributes>
>>      ...
>>   </container>
>>
>> But it was decided that using engine-specific tags would allow for
>> schema enforcement, and would be more readable.
>>
>> The <network> and <storage> tags were kept under <bundle> because we
>> figured those are essential to the concept of a bundle, and any engine
>> should support some way of mapping those.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense :)
> 
> Now I have a working rkt resource agent and would like to test it.
> Can you share the pcmk:httpd image mentioned in the docker example?

Sure, we have a walk-through on the wiki that I was going to announce
after 1.1.17 final is released (hopefully later this week), but now is
good, too :-)

   https://wiki.clusterlabs.org/wiki/Bundle_Walk-Through