atomic, kubernetes, etc on non x86_64

[Troy Dawson]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Adam Miller <maxamillion at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Last night I had some time to myself, I decided to look at what it would
> take
> > to get atomic running on arm. after having to tweak some of the json
> files.
> > the hardcoded ref in it if not flexible at all
> > -    "ref": "fedora-atomic/rawhide/x86_64/docker-host",
> > +    "ref": "fedora-atomic/rawhide/armhfp/docker-host",
> >
> > Neither is the hardcoded packages,
> > -                "grub2", "grub2-efi", "ostree-grub2",
> > -                "efibootmgr", "shim",
> > +                "extlinux-bootloader",
> >
> > the packages in every other part of our deliverables are dealt with by
> using
> > comps and yum/dnf skipping over missing things. Which made me curious
> about
> > how it was envisioned to support atomic on multiple arches as it seems
> to be
> > designed around a single arch silo.
> >
> > However once I got past that I discovered that atomic and kubernetes
> both had
> > "ExclusiveArch: x86_64" in the spec files (Violating packaging
> guidelines in
> > the process) but they do actually build just fine for all the primary
> arches
> > and are installable on arm at least. I was able to make a atomic repo in
> the
> > end.  I plan to throw together a kickstart and attempt to install it as
> soon
> > as I can.
>
> This is awesome, let me know if you have something that you'd like
> help testing. I have a spare TrimSlice that's currently sitting idle
> and would love to see some Atomic action on it. :)
>
> >
> > What will it take to fix the packaging and get people on board for
> supporting
> > the greater world?  could it be something we work with someone like
> > https://www.scaleway.com/ who have arm based cloud servers today to
> support?
>
> How do we do that? Is there an official avenue to pursue working with
> cloud vendors? What was the process to get the Fedora Cloud image into
> IaaS providers with fedimg? (I assume some sort of relationship has to
> be established between Fedora as a project and the cloud provider)
>
> -AdamM
>
>
Send the scaleway people an email, letting them know you are asking
officially on behalf of Fedora cloud.
In my personal dealings, they have been very nice to work with.
I don't know how it came about, but I know that centos has 4 machines
dedicated to them.  I'm not saying that will happen, just saying it.


Troy
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