Hello there,
Thanks a lot for raising the question and offering ideas to move forward @caps ! I would like to say that I really like the AI crafted screenshot provided 🤩
But, to be clear, the status as of today regarding Docker or other containers integration in XO/XCP-ng is that there is an item in the DevOps Tools team roadmap. The item is just to look and define what could be done (example update xscontainer, do something totally new, ...). Unfortunately this spike has a low priority and is not yet scheduled.
That being said, there is an active project, which is close to what you're asking. It's about a better integration of Kubernetes, including, cluster update, adding nodes, etc. More on this should come in the next months! ️
Also note that I am chatting with different people and teams in Vates about this thread and the Docker integration topic to see if we could do something.
Also last thing is that, the community is always welcome to build on top of our open source softwares. I am pretty sure that if someone would contribute a Xen Orchestra plugin to integrate Docker we would welcome this, and we could give tips and guidance. Like @teddyastie said, I'm not sure having Docker, Podman, related features in the guest agent would be something our colleagues would merge. But maybe the docker daemon socket could be kind of shared between VMs (I'm not sure at all this is possible and if possible how to do it). In the meantime exposing the docker daemon over network (with restrictions) to Xen Orchestra would be quick'n easy and I think safe enough if done carefully.
