[Distutils] zc.buildout & Docker container images

[Reinout van Rees]

On 03-07-14 19:01, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
> I'm really hoping that Docker will eventually allow us to stop
> building system packages though.

Yes. Sounds like you can use whatever method you want to build up a 
docker image and be done with it.

Hopefully you'll do it in a nicely ordered repeatable way with some 
combination of fabric/ansible/buildout/puppet/whatever. Things like 
adding nginx to the docker and symlinking a buildout-generated nginx 
config file into the /etc/nginx directory suddenly don't run afoul of 
I-need-to-be-root anymore.


I wonder what this means for buildout :-) Like you said, a docker 
instance means there's less need for the isolation of buildout (and 
virtualenv).

On the other hand, buildout could install/adjust things globally in /etc 
directly, for instance! The "compose a complete application" promise of 
buildout gets an extra boost this way.


Reinout

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