Re: CoreOS vs Anaconda toolchain

[Vendula Poncova]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:53 PM Pat Riehecky  wrote:
> This does indeed sound interesting.
>
> Anaconda is one of the more complex bits of software I've worked with.
> It does a lot various things with a fair bit of flexibility.
>
> My thoughts after 20 seconds of reflection (aka, not thought through at
> all):
>
> I wonder if it might make sense to converge on something driven by a
> more modern workflow and tooling?  From one perspective
> Anaconda/Ignition are system setup tools.  Might it make sense to begin
> leveraging some of the automation tools to do some of this setup?  Or to
> put another way: Could anaconda/ignition begin to transition into a well
> defined Ansible workflow where the UI sets parameters?  For as much as I
> love kickstart, a YAML formatted document might lend itself to templates
> and easier transition to/from cloud providers....

Hi Pat,

Lars was looking into that for the osbuild. The problem is that Ansible
doesn't have support for systems that are kind of dead (no running services
etc.). However, I think that it would be a great way of sharing code with
other system setup and system building tools.

Vendy
> Pat
>
> On 9/6/19 3:46 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Hi, I wanted to link this here:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_coreos_coreo...
> > Most importantly starting from
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_coreos_coreo...
> > and the most recent ones.
> >
> > Would love to do some brainstorming about how we can share more
>
> code/ideas in general; I had some specific comments towards the end.
> > One thing not explicitly noted there is how key Ignition is to FCOS (and
>
> derivatives like RHCOS) - having a common language that works in both bare
> metal as well as e.g. AWS and Azure is a big deal - and today the OpenShift
> 4 installer and the [machine-config-operator](
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_openshift_ma...
> ) are built heavily upon it.
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