[Distutils] zc.buildout & Docker container images

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 17:56:02 CEST 2014


On 29 Jun 2014 07:29, "Jim Fulton" <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>
> You also don't need tools to automate deployment of production
> configurations when an application is deployed, as this is mostly done
> when building an image.  The isolation provided by docker containers
> also allows configuration to be simpler. There's still benefit of having
> a system like buildout with Python recipes to automate assembly
> (often including non-python bits like JavaScript libraries) and
> configuration.

Yeah, it's the "you still need a way to define what goes into the image"
part that intrigues me with respect to combining tools like zc.buildout
with Docker.

It's an aspect I've seen folks sometimes miss in the discussions around
containers in general - the existing tech for repeatable deployments
doesn't necessarily go away, you just run it at image build time rather
than deployment time.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> Jim
>
> --
> Jim Fulton
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton
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