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On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:14 PM Daniel Comnea <comnea.d...@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 6:09 PM Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019, at 5:20 PM, Clayton Coleman wrote:
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>> > Because the operating system integration is so critical, we need to
>> > make sure that the major components (ostree, ignition, and the kubelet)
>> > are tied together in a CoreOS distribution that can be quickly
>> > refreshed with OKD - the Fedora CoreOS project is close to being ready
>> > for integration in our CI, so that’s a natural place to start. That
>> > represents the biggest technical obstacle that I’m aware of to get our
>> > first versions of OKD4 out (the CI systems are currently testing on top
>> > of RHEL CoreOS but we have PoCs of how to take an arbitrary ostree
>> > based distro and slot it in).
>>
>> The tricky thing here is...if we want this to work the same as OpenShift
>> 4/OCP
>> with RHEL CoreOS, then what we're really talking about here is a
>> *derivative*
>> of FCOS that for example embeds the kubelet from OKD.  And short term
>> it will need to use Ignition spec 2.  There may be other things I'm
>> forgetting.
>>
> [DC] : in addition to that i think you need changes to installer/ MCO , or
> am i wrong ?
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>> Concretely for example, OKDFCOS (to use the obvious if unwieldy acronym)
>> would need to have its own uploaded "bootimages" (i.e. AMIs, PXE media
>> etc)
>> that are own its own version number/lifecycle distinct from (but derived
>> from)
>> FCOS (and OKD).
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> [DC]: curious to understand why it can't be one single FCOS? what other
> avenues FCOS do chase will break by having  OKD baked in components?
> If we are talking about a derivative then i'd go and challenge that maybe
> a CentOS CoreOS based on RHCOS is the best bet and that can deprecate
> Project Atomic. Doing so imo (i could miss some context here) will reduce
> any tension on FCOS charter and will rapidly (hopefully) allow OKD to
> become a thing.
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>> This is completely possible (anything is in software) but the current
>> team is
>> working on a lot of things and introducing a 3rd stream for us to
>> maintain would
>> be a not at all small cost.  On the other hand, the benefit of doing so
>> (e.g.
>> early upstream kernel/selinux-policy/systemd/podman integration testing
>> with kubernetes/OKD) might be worth it alone.
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