Kocho – Bootstrapping Tool for CoreOS Clusters on AWS
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Wow I didn't knew about Mayu/Kochu, pretty clever. it would be great to also have Kubernetes and a ha filesystem (gluster) or some kind of local s3 bootstrapped. When that would be possible it would be really really easy to use that on bare metal and still have a way to create files / run software that isn't a good fit for docker (i.e. some databases)
I' ver been using my own cloud formation template to spin up CoreOS clusters, and it's a real pain! I'll surely try Kocho out!
Using an OverlayFS mount to provide custom fleet and etcd binaries is a really smart, clean trick. Well done.
(Work at CoreOS)