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On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:46 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> It clams to be 100% open source. It runs on "bare metal", linux systems, |
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> clusters and clouds. It claims to have a much small footprint ~114 MB and |
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> boots very very fast via pxi(boot). |
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The whole idea of CoreOS is to be the host for a bunch of containers. |
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The host is completely generic - other than maybe configuring things |
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like the network or hardware or things actually related to hosting |
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(what containers to run/how/etc) you aren't suppose to really touch |
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it. You don't install packages on the host. All the stuff you care |
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about goes into the containers. |
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Think of it like VMWare on bare metal, except it is linux and you're |
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running containers and not VMs (so much more efficient, and less |
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secure). |
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> Surely there will be a openrc version(s) that survives, adapts and remains |
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> relevant. |
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Again, the point of CoreOS is that you don't care how the host works. |
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You won't add/remove services from the host. As such you won't care |
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what init implementation it runs. |
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The containers are a completely different beast. You might just run |
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your application in the container as PID 1. Or, maybe you run |
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something like sysvinit+openrc or systemd inside a container. You |
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could have one of each running on the same host. |
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> To me, it appears that some forward looking folks have forked (stolen the |
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> best parts?) gentoo, made some fundamental (long overdue changes) and are |
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> all about creating a source_to_cluster platform. (hmmmm, vaguely sounds |
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> familiar...scratching head). It is a natural evilution for linux to take; or |
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> are we going to embrace some much needed change (new ideas) into gentoo? |
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I have no idea if CoreOS is Gentoo-derived, but it is very much a |
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special-purpose distro. The whole concept is that you put all the |
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value-add in the containers, and then you just want a really standard |
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and lightweight distro to host your containers in. Maybe you run |
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CentOS in one container, and Gentoo in another container, and Debian |
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in another container. |
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Rich |
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