Add an option to control if play kube should start the pod

Having play kube start the pod is not always appropriate, one might
for example like to have the pod running as a set of systemd services.
Add a `start` option to the command line and API to control if the pod
should be started or not; it defaults to true for backward
compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/domain/entities/play.go b/pkg/domain/entities/play.go
index 7e4afcc28..0b42e1a3f 100644
--- a/pkg/domain/entities/play.go
+++ b/pkg/domain/entities/play.go
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ type PlayKubeOptions struct {
 	ConfigMaps []string
 	// LogDriver for the container. For example: journald
 	LogDriver string
+	// Start - don't start the pod if false
+	Start types.OptionalBool
 }
 
 // PlayKubePod represents a single pod and associated containers created by play kube
diff --git a/pkg/domain/infra/abi/play.go b/pkg/domain/infra/abi/play.go
index c0948e099..4bcc6469c 100644
--- a/pkg/domain/infra/abi/play.go
+++ b/pkg/domain/infra/abi/play.go
@@ -297,20 +297,22 @@ func (ic *ContainerEngine) playKubePod(ctx context.Context, podName string, podY
 		containers = append(containers, ctr)
 	}
 
-	//start the containers
-	podStartErrors, err := pod.Start(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
+	if options.Start != types.OptionalBoolFalse {
+		//start the containers
+		podStartErrors, err := pod.Start(ctx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
 
-	// Previous versions of playkube started containers individually and then
-	// looked for errors.  Because we now use the uber-Pod start call, we should
-	// iterate the map of possible errors and return one if there is a problem. This
-	// keeps the behavior the same
+		// Previous versions of playkube started containers individually and then
+		// looked for errors.  Because we now use the uber-Pod start call, we should
+		// iterate the map of possible errors and return one if there is a problem. This
+		// keeps the behavior the same
 
-	for _, e := range podStartErrors {
-		if e != nil {
-			return nil, e
+		for _, e := range podStartErrors {
+			if e != nil {
+				return nil, e
+			}
 		}
 	}