Why I'm excited about Atomic for Fedora

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 10/28/2015 02:08 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:59:01PM +0530, Aditya Patawari wrote:
>> For me, I often have to move away from Fedora Cloud or Server editions
>> because of limited support cycle. I don't want to run a distribution
>> in my production environment where security updates won't be available
>> after a short amount of time. I am not sure if atomic updates or
>> ostree would help here. I would love to run more of Fedora Cloud or
>> Server instances if, at least, security updates are supported for a
>> longer time.
> With Atomic, the idea would be that you'd basically just move to the
> newer host release seamlessly, because your containers will run in the
> same way.
>
>> That said, I still have a fair number of instances running in
>> production because Fedora often packages newer releases of tools and
>> software which is required to run some of the applications.
> And, on the other side of the above, you can update your containers as
> fits your schedule, and mix and match e.g. CentOS and Fedora containers
> as appropriate.
>
Theoretically you should be able to move from f23 to f24 with an atomic
update when f24 happens.
And would still be able to reboot back into f23 if you had problems with
f24.