[Container-tools] [Devtools] Future Focus of Tools Deploy Team: Ansible Container & Kompose

[Mitchell Harpur]

+1 for Ansible. Its my opinion that it should be the tool to use accross the board. 

Imaging we could just use ansible and VM's where neccesary (win + mac) to simplify our provisioning development,deployment,promotion experience (remove the need for vagrant)

Mitch


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dusty Mabe" <dusty at dustymabe.com>
To: container-tools at redhat.com, devtools at redhat.com
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 8:21:04 AM
Subject: [Devtools] Future Focus of Tools Deploy Team: Ansible Container &	Kompose


Hey Everyone,

Last week the Devtools Deploy team had a meeting to discuss our goals around Ansible 
and Atomic App, based on the requirements coming from our PM and engineering teams. We 
are concerned that we have too many tools in this space - in particular we think that 
we end up spending a lot of time explaining the differences between these tools, rather 
than working on solving real use cases.

We think that Ansible itself has an interesting end-to-end story for people looking to deploy 
applications, and we think that working with Ansible, and in particular the ansible-container 
project could solve a number of the use cases we want to look at. As one of our first goals
we want to bring some of the deployment support we have in Atomic App to ansible container - 
we intend to make PRs based on our experience. We are hoping to become tightly integrated 
with their team and share the same roadmap when it comes to that tool.

We also want to get more involved in existing upstream communities that are centered around 
Kubernetes/OpenShift. We have already started to get involved with the Kompose project [1] 
and we want to evaluate Helm [2] packaging and how it relates to Kompose and see where the good 
things about Nulecule can be brought to the table there.

As a result of focusing on Ansible and Kompose/Helm for the next 6 months, it does mean we will slow 
down our work on Atomic App. One thing we do want to do is merge the Nulecule and Atomic 
App repositories so that it is less confusing to approach that project. We'll be merging the
Nulecule repository into the Atomic App repository and Nulecule will become an implementation 
detail for Atomic App. After the merge we'll let it rest for a while and re-evaluate it in some
time.

Questions/Concerns?

Dusty

[1] - https://github.com/skippbox/kompose
[2] - https://github.com/kubernetes/helm

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