Re: What is our technical debt?

[Tomasz Torcz]

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&gt;
> 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.
  

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