On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:50:47AM +0100, Stephen Coady wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 10:34, David Kirwan <dkirwan(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If we are moving towards openshift/kubernetes backed services, we should probably
be sticking with containers rather than Vagrant. We can use CRC [1] (Code Ready
Containers) or minikube [2] for most local dev work.
>>
> The only problem with that is not everything runs in containers. For
> example the new AAA service is backed by FreeIPA and that does not run
> in a container.
It doesn't? What about
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa-container ?
> Everything will run in a virtual machine given that
> enough care has been put into creating the VM. I don't think the same
> can be said for containers.
I think in todays world we should develop for containers first.
Especially when k8s abstracts many things and provides useful
infrastructure for application. A bit like systemd a decade ago, by
providing useful APIs like socket-activation, watchdog, restarts,
parallel invocations locks, applications do not have to care about
re-implementing boring stuff over and over again.
It will also make integration
testing with other containerized apps much
easier.