Proposal: Use storage backends for machine metadata

[ekristen]

Instead of storing everything locally, it might be advantageous to use a storage backend like Consul or etc. This would allow easier sharing of machine data between multiple server admins. This would also align docker-machine with the likes of swarm, machine and others that are now supporting multiple key/value store systems for orchestration and discovery.

[nathanleclaire]

Indeed, this is why we made Store an interface (so there could be multiple implementations), but there are a few things which need to be ironed out first before it is really quite viable.

[ekristen]

Any movement on this idea at all? I'd really like to write one for Consul or even Vault for storing the private key and ssh keys, this would also make it easier to share with other members of my team.

[nathanleclaire]

Well, in the next "sprint" of stuff we want to re-work libmachine to make this kind of thing easier, so stay tuned. That would include re-working Store to actually handle things like certs which are complected in the logic today.

[sukrit007]

+1

[anarcher]

+1