Create a docker package for flumotion

[mithro]

Currently we have 1 flumotion per stream. This currently uses 1 machine per stream as managing the configuration of multiple streams on one machine is to hard.

We should package flumotion up in a docker thingy - https://www.docker.io/
"Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal, OpenStack clusters, public clouds and more. "

Flumotion in the TimVideos streaming system

There are 3 types of flumotion configurations; they should share a base docker image but also be provides a separate docker image correctly configured.

• Collector - runs on site at a conference and does light encode to compress data so you can send it over the internet to an encoder.
  • Requires dvswitch support.
• Encoder - runs in the cloud and converts video from the light encode format to something suitable for people to view in their browser.
• Repeater/Amplifier - runs in the cloud and streams a copy of the encoder output. Allows the system to scale past the limits of a single machine.

There are a couple of support applications we use with flumotion; these should be installed inside the docker image and started as part of the container.

• watchdog - Restarts failed components and does a full system restart when things go totally wrong.
• register - Registers with the tracker website (so the stream can be found) and sends statistics and logs for reporting and load balancing support.

[xaiki]

http://github.com/xaiki/flumotion-docker might or might not be a starting point for you guys.

[mithro]

Hi @maxstr - Can you dump a link to your final report into this bug? I believe your packages ended up at https://hub.docker.com/u/streamingsystem/ ?

[maxstr]

Yep, available here:
http://mstritzi.nfshost.com/writeup/index.html

The docker image you'd want is streamingsystem/flumotion.