[chef] Re: Re: chef-metal vs chef-container?

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Ranjib Dey 
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> chef-container is chef-docker integration. while chef-metal is a common
> abstraction of a VM or machine. chef-container allows managing docker
> instances via chef's ecosystem (attributes, run list etc). It also allows
> you to add run time changes to docker containers (IP for example).

chef-init (part of the container offering) also provides "PID 1" and
process supervision for the container processes you launch within the
container.

> Chef-metal does not support bare metal provisioning yet :-) (not sure an
> iPXE driver may be on its way ). While chef-container does not support LXC,
> openvz, solaris, WPAR, systemd-nspawn, lmctfy or any other containers, and i
> think by design it will only support docker. Also, note, philosophically

We wouldn't rule out support for things other than Docker, but let's
see how things play out. Maybe not WPAR though :-P

- Julian

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