There is a wonderful little piece of CoreOS that is toolbox[0]. It's not available on Atomic Host. Yes I could install it easily but the point of toolbox is to avoid installing anything on the host system in the first place !
It could easily be forgotten on the side of the road while doing the CoreOS/Atomic fusion work.
So I'm asking you, can you salvage this and integrate it pretty please :) ?
I am a product manager for containers/rhel/CoreOS at Red Hat, and I very much foresee a similar container for Red Hat CoreOS which will provide similar functionality for troubleshooting kernel, and user space (aka other containers) problems.
[1]: https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/09/introducing-the-fe... [2]: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/11/introducing-th...
I do think that the simple concept of having `toolbox` installed by default is a powerful one, and while we should revisit some of the details I'd say we should carry this one forward.
Have you built much scripting up on top of it, or is it just having it available for interactive use?
Not much scripting, just a personalised image on Docker Hub and an alias on my dev machine to push "navaati/toolbox" in the .toolboxrc on machines (but that's just a small convenience).