7:14 p.m.
People,
I have been following Fedora Atomic and CoreOS for a while and now I
think I want to shift my server (as opposed to my workstation or laptop
- I have been testing SilverBlue on the laptop) to CoreOS. The server
is basically used for the systems in the Subject - I will eventually
move all the Jekyll and Rails apps (currently running as Docker
containers) to other servers but I want to test out CoreOS on my own
server first before setting up CoreOS VMs - QMail and EZMLM need to be
built from C code and this has been streamlined for me for over a decade
- but now I am thinking of creating a Podman container for Qmail and
EZMLM.
Can people comment on any likely difficulties I might have?
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
4:08 a.m.
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On 11/27/19 2:14 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
I have been following Fedora Atomic and CoreOS for a while and now I
think I want to shift my server (as opposed to my workstation or
laptop - I have been testing SilverBlue on the laptop) to CoreOS. The
server is basically used for the systems in the Subject - I will
eventually move all the Jekyll and Rails apps (currently running as
Docker containers) to other servers but I want to test out CoreOS on
my own server first before setting up CoreOS VMs - QMail and EZMLM
need to be built from C code and this has been streamlined for me for
over a decade - but now I am thinking of creating a Podman container
for Qmail and EZMLM.
Can people comment on any likely difficulties I might have?
I am in the process to upgrade my bare metal server from Atomic 29 to
CoreOs in the coming weeks. I may share my potential issues and tricks
if it can help. Until now, detailed documentation is hard to find.
Thanks,
Phil.
6:28 a.m.
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arnaud,
On 2019-11-27 21:08, arnaud gaboury wrote:
On 11/27/19 2:14 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> I have been following Fedora Atomic and CoreOS for a while and now I
> think I want to shift my server (as opposed to my workstation or
> laptop - I have been testing SilverBlue on the laptop) to CoreOS. The
> server is basically used for the systems in the Subject - I will
> eventually move all the Jekyll and Rails apps (currently running as
> Docker containers) to other servers but I want to test out CoreOS on
> my own server first before setting up CoreOS VMs - QMail and EZMLM
> need to be built from C code and this has been streamlined for me for
> over a decade - but now I am thinking of creating a Podman container
> for Qmail and EZMLM.
>
> Can people comment on any likely difficulties I might have?
I am in the process to upgrade my bare metal server from Atomic 29 to
CoreOs in the coming weeks. I may share my potential issues and tricks
if it can help. Until now, detailed documentation is hard to find.
Thanks for that - I might start experimenting anyway . .
Regards,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
7:18 a.m.
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People,
On 2019-11-27 23:28, Philip Rhoades wrote:
arnaud,
On 2019-11-27 21:08, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> On 11/27/19 2:14 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> I have been following Fedora Atomic and CoreOS for a while and now I
>> think I want to shift my server (as opposed to my workstation or
>> laptop - I have been testing SilverBlue on the laptop) to CoreOS.
>> The
>> server is basically used for the systems in the Subject - I will
>> eventually move all the Jekyll and Rails apps (currently running as
>> Docker containers) to other servers but I want to test out CoreOS on
>> my own server first before setting up CoreOS VMs - QMail and EZMLM
>> need to be built from C code and this has been streamlined for me for
>> over a decade - but now I am thinking of creating a Podman container
>> for Qmail and EZMLM.
>>
>> Can people comment on any likely difficulties I might have?
>
> I am in the process to upgrade my bare metal server from Atomic 29 to
> CoreOs in the coming weeks. I may share my potential issues and tricks
> if it can help. Until now, detailed documentation is hard to find.
Thanks for that - I might start experimenting anyway . .
One experiment:
I have an 8TB backup server installed with Atomic - am I able to do a
bare-metal install by booting a live USB and then installing CoreOS BUT
not touch the /home partition? - there should be plenty of space to
install if the first four standard partitions are zapped?
Regards,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
1:58 p.m.
New subject: Moving from F30 (Jekyll / Rails / QMail / EZMLM server) to CoreOS - a good idea?
On 11/26/19 8:14 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
People,
Hi Philip
I have been following Fedora Atomic and CoreOS for a while and now I
think I want to shift my server (as opposed to my workstation or laptop
- I have been testing SilverBlue on the laptop) to CoreOS. The server
is basically used for the systems in the Subject - I will eventually
move all the Jekyll and Rails apps (currently running as Docker
containers) to other servers but I want to test out CoreOS on my own
server first before setting up CoreOS VMs - QMail and EZMLM need to be
built from C code and this has been streamlined for me for over a decade
- but now I am thinking of creating a Podman container for Qmail and
EZMLM.
Can people comment on any likely difficulties I might have?
If you can build/run your application in a container then Fedora CoreOS should
be a good candidate for that.
Dusty
2 p.m.
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On 11/28/19 8:18 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
One experiment:
I have an 8TB backup server installed with Atomic - am I able to do a
bare-metal install by booting a live USB and then installing CoreOS BUT
not touch the /home partition? - there should be plenty of space to
install if the first four standard partitions are zapped?
The installer consumes a block device and overwrites the contents of it as
if you were doing a `dd` of the provided disk image we give you. If you want
to save the contents of your home partition I would suggest you copy the data
off.
Of course there is a more complicated scenario where you've got your /home on a
completely separate disk. In that case it might work, but I doubt you have it set
up that way.
Dusty
5:42 a.m.
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On 12/2/19 9:00 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On 11/28/19 8:18 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> One experiment:
>
> I have an 8TB backup server installed with Atomic - am I able to do a
> bare-metal install by booting a live USB and then installing CoreOS BUT
> not touch the /home partition? - there should be plenty of space to
> install if the first four standard partitions are zapped?
>
The installer consumes a block device and overwrites the contents of it as
if you were doing a `dd` of the provided disk image we give you. If you want
to save the contents of your home partition I would suggest you copy the data
off.
Of course there is a more complicated scenario where you've got your /home on a
completely separate disk. In that case it might work, but I doubt you have it set
up that way.
I was thinking using Btrfs file system with subvolumes like /home.
It seems this is a way to keep data from Fedora atomic.
Any advice?
Dusty
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Dusty,
On 2019-12-03 07:00, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On 11/28/19 8:18 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> One experiment:
>
> I have an 8TB backup server installed with Atomic - am I able to do a
> bare-metal install by booting a live USB and then installing CoreOS
> BUT
> not touch the /home partition? - there should be plenty of space to
> install if the first four standard partitions are zapped?
The installer consumes a block device and overwrites the contents of it
as
if you were doing a `dd` of the provided disk image we give you. If you
want
to save the contents of your home partition I would suggest you copy
the data
off.
Right - I had assumed that was the case and recycled a SSD 140GB drive
from an old NetBook and used that as the new sda and made the 6TB drive
sdb - I had to manually use nmcli to change the IP address but otherwise
things went pretty smoothly . .
Of course there is a more complicated scenario where you've got
your
/home on a
completely separate disk. In that case it might work, but I doubt you
have it set
up that way.
Correct - copies of old HDs were just in /home (/dev/sda5).
Thanks!
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
9:44 p.m.
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Dusty,
On 2019-12-03 06:58, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On 11/26/19 8:14 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
Hi Philip
>
> I have been following Fedora Atomic and CoreOS for a while and now I
> think I want to shift my server (as opposed to my workstation or
> laptop
> - I have been testing SilverBlue on the laptop) to CoreOS. The server
> is basically used for the systems in the Subject - I will eventually
> move all the Jekyll and Rails apps (currently running as Docker
> containers) to other servers but I want to test out CoreOS on my own
> server first before setting up CoreOS VMs - QMail and EZMLM need to be
> built from C code and this has been streamlined for me for over a
> decade
> - but now I am thinking of creating a Podman container for Qmail and
> EZMLM.
>
> Can people comment on any likely difficulties I might have?
>
If you can build/run your application in a container then Fedora CoreOS
should
be a good candidate for that.
I have started the process . .
Thanks!
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au
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