Re: Packaging Advice for EFF's Certbot

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Brad Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Not wanting to install a lot of extra software to use Certbot is certainly
>> fair and we’d obviously prefer our packaging solution to be as lightweight
>> as possible. Thanks for bringing this up as a consideration.
>
> I feel like these responses may be lumping things together more than
> is helpful... using docker is quite heavyweight in the sense that it
> makes major demands on the host system: you need a docker daemon
> running, it has to be root, maybe it needs some special kernel modules
> to handle overlay filesystems, and so forth. That's fine if it's there
> already, but if it's not then certbot shouldn't be trying to bootstrap
> a docker installation from scratch.

Just to be clear, I wasn't meaning to promote or recommend the Docker
option I described. I was just throwing it out there as an additional
option to consider because I didn't see it listed in the Google doc in
the form I had in mind.

It could very well be too heavyweight -- I understand that downside. I
don't have a good enough sense of what the deployments look like to
evaluate the trade-offs one way or the other.

--Chris
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