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Hi. There is a wonderful little piece of CoreOS that is toolbox[0]. It's not available on Atomic Host. Yes I could install it easily but the point of toolbox i

Hi. There is a wonderful little piece of CoreOS that is toolbox[0]. It's not available on Atomic Host. Yes I could install it easily but the point of toolbox is to avoid installing anything on the host system in the first place ! It could easily be forgotten on the side of the road while doing the CoreOS/Atomic fusion work. So I'm asking you, can you salvage this and integrate it pretty please :) ? [0] https://github.com/coreos/toolbox https://github.com/coreos/toolbox

jzelinskie 8y ago
I don't think you need to worry about toolbox going anywhere as it's already Fedora based, haha!
- navaati 8y ago
  Oh I had forgotten that ! But I'm not worrying about fedora inside my toolbox but about my toolbox inside fedora ^^
  - cgwalters 8y ago
    Thanks for bringing this up, this one had dropped off my radar. I do think that the simple concept of having `toolbox` installed by default is a powerful one, and while we should revisit some of the details I'd say we should carry this one forward. Have you built much scripting up on top of it, or is it just having it available for interactive use?
    - navaati 8y ago
      Oh thanks ! Not much scripting, just a personalised image on Docker Hub and an alias on my dev machine to push "navaati/toolbox" in the .toolboxrc on machines (but that's just a small convenience).
fatherlinnux 8y ago
In Fedora, there is the Fedora Tools container [1], in RHEL, there is the RHEL Tools container. I don't envision either of those going away because they allow you to do all kinds of fancy stuff including things that require kernel compatibility, like SystemTap, core dumps, etc. I am a product manager for containers/rhel/CoreOS at Red Hat, and I very much foresee a similar container for Red Hat CoreOS which will provide similar functionality for troubleshooting kernel, and user space (aka other containers) problems. [1]: https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/09/introducing-the-fedora-tools-image-for-fedora-atomic-host/ https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/09/introducing-the-fe... [2]: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/11/introducing-the-rhel-container-for-rhel-atomic-host/ https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/11/introducing-th...

jzelinskie 8y ago

I don't think you need to worry about toolbox going anywhere as it's already Fedora based, haha!

navaati 8y ago
Oh I had forgotten that ! But I'm not worrying about fedora inside my toolbox but about my toolbox inside fedora ^^
- cgwalters 8y ago
  Thanks for bringing this up, this one had dropped off my radar. I do think that the simple concept of having `toolbox` installed by default is a powerful one, and while we should revisit some of the details I'd say we should carry this one forward. Have you built much scripting up on top of it, or is it just having it available for interactive use?
  - navaati 8y ago
    Oh thanks ! Not much scripting, just a personalised image on Docker Hub and an alias on my dev machine to push "navaati/toolbox" in the .toolboxrc on machines (but that's just a small convenience).

fatherlinnux 8y ago

In Fedora, there is the Fedora Tools container [1], in RHEL, there is the RHEL Tools container. I don't envision either of those going away because they allow you to do all kinds of fancy stuff including things that require kernel compatibility, like SystemTap, core dumps, etc. I am a product manager for containers/rhel/CoreOS at Red Hat, and I very much foresee a similar container for Red Hat CoreOS which will provide similar functionality for troubleshooting kernel, and user space (aka other containers) problems. [1]: https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/09/introducing-the-fedora-tools-image-for-fedora-atomic-host/ https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/09/introducing-the-fe... [2]: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/11/introducing-the-rhel-container-for-rhel-atomic-host/ https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/11/introducing-th...