Hi Joe,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I'm in an environment where I can't choose images of my choice, the only
[relevant] ones I have available are CentOS 6 & 7 and RHEL 6 & 7.

I know that Red Hat developed kpatch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpatch>;
which enables hot-patching <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_patching> of
a running kernel.

With CoreOS's FastPatch <https://coreos.com/using-coreos/updates/> I just
need to join a non CoreOS host to a CoreOS cluster (it's easy to join etcd,
then fleet follows via systemd [DBUS]).

How would I go about setting up something similar with Project Atomic's
ecosystem?

Happy to contribute some elbow-grease!

Alec Taylor

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/15/2015 08:52 PM, Alec Taylor wrote:
> >
> > Can I just patch the kernel and install a bunch of software once I've
> > logged into the CentOS host?
> >
> > Or is it not possible to get Atomic that way?
>
> I'm assuming by "atomic" you mean all the features including rpm-ostree
> updates, etc.?
>
> No - this isn't something you can install on a running CentOS host.
> You'd need to install an atomic build from the start.
>
> What's your scenario here? Are you being provided hosts from another
> department and just unable to use the images of your choice, or...?
>
> Best,
>
> jzb
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