Project Atomic: Deploy and Manage Your Docker Containers

http://www.projectatomic.io/

by crb • 12 years ago

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eloff• 12 years ago

What's the advantages/disadvantages when compared with CoreOS? They seem to be direct competitors.

ermintrude• 12 years ago

It's Redhat trying not to get left out when the container revolution starts.

pinko• 12 years ago

That's actually a very helpful piece of information, as I hadn't noticed the tiny RedHat line at the bottom--thank you! But it still leaves open the original question about advantages/disadvantages vs. CoreOS.

peterwwillis5• 12 years ago

CoreOS uses a "dual root" setup to stage upgrades. Atomic uses rpm-ostree to stage upgrades. Both require reboots and the bootloader to roll back changes.

Both will let you run Docker containers.

CoreOS doesn't seem to support SELinux natively, but Atomic does. (Probably related to the fact that Atomic is a normal-ish linux distro and CoreOS is totally custom)

Atomic gives you a web interface to manage running services. I am not aware of a similar tool [Cockpit] on CoreOS.

Atomic uses geard as an interface to installing Docker containers into systemd and running them. It's a part of OpenShift. It seems to be abstraction that you can use to control more parts of the "orchestration" of large systems, plugging in zookeeper/etcd/serf for the backend configs. Seems like they have a strong focus on the real-world security of their application clusters. https://github.com/openshift/geard/blob/master/docs/orchestr...

sciurus• 12 years ago

Interesting to see that this is based on OStree, a tool for managing "bootable, immutable, versioned filesystem trees.".

Project page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree

Relevant HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6277518

peterwwillis5• 12 years ago

Is there some new law of software engineering that says you can't release a server tool if it doesn't first have a flashy website?

wmf• 12 years ago

Marketing works. I don't think it's a new law.

teacup50• 12 years ago

Unfortunately, what it works at isnt presenting complex technical information in a way that allows engineers to concretely evaluate the implementation and claims.

Quite the opposite: bereft implementations and retread ideas are pasted over by fancy marketing.

The rise of buzzword marketing shine has been bad for our industry.

bencord0• 12 years ago

There are exceptions. http://www.libressl.org/

Project Atomic: Deploy and Manage Your Docker Containers

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