Bug 9592

Summary:	Add a mechanism for creating build appliance as a container image
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] Runtime	Reporter:	Randy Witt <randy.e.witt>
Component:	build-appliance	Assignee:	brian avery <brian.avery>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:	David Lopez Barriba <davidx.lopez.barriba>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High	CC:	bluelightning, brian.avery, jose.perez.carranza, konrad.scherer, randy.macleod, richard.purdie, sgw
Version:	2.2
Target Milestone:	2.3 M3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)
Bug Depends on:	10528, 10713, 10768
Bug Blocks:	10769

Description Randy Witt 2016-05-04 23:21:05 UTC

A build appliance that is a container image will be much smaller and more likely to be used by the most popular tools.

For instance we could build a container that contains the "build descriptor" consumer script on top of a "build appliance container image."

Or it can be used for the current crops/yocto containers on dockerhub that currently are based around standard distros that might be larger than desired.

Comment 1 Randy Witt 2016-10-25 21:03:21 UTC

Reassigning to Brian since he wants to leverage the existing crops containers.

Comment 2 brian avery 2016-11-09 16:58:43 UTC

AFAIK, the remaining functionality missing from the CROPS/container et al family is the ability to run qemu with a graphical display.

Comment 3 brian avery 2016-12-05 18:28:38 UTC

RFC sent out . Awaiting feedback.

Comment 4 brian avery 2016-12-15 16:06:12 UTC

Mail sent to open embedded architecture list.  Several questions came up and were answered/pointed to bugs that are being worked on.

ML reference: http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-architecture/2016-December/000348.html

Comment 5 brian avery 2017-02-16 22:52:35 UTC

We have agreed that the containers serve a different purpose from the Build Appliance.  The containers provide a lightweight way to use the YP.  The Build Appliance is a complete image dogfooding test which verifies we can rebuild an image from an image we created.  Because of this, we are keeping both the Build Appliance and the containers so I am marking this as resolved/obsolete as we chose not to go down the path of deprecating the Build Appliance.