F22 System Wide Change: Bare Metal Installer for Fedora Atomic Host

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:49:38 +0100
Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:

> = Proposed System Wide Change: Bare Metal Installer for Fedora Atomic
> Host = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Bare_Metal_Atomic
> 
> Change owner(s): Joe Brockmeier <jzb at fedoraproject.org>, Ian McLeod 
> <imcleod at redhat.com>
> 
> To produce a bare metal installer suitable for installing Fedora
> Atomic Host 22 on "bare metal" (e.g., directly on a server rather
> than running on top of some kind of cloud or virtualization). 
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> In Fedora 21 we shipped Fedora Atomic Host as an AMI for use in
> Amazon EC2, and as a qcow2 suitable for use with OpenStack, KVM, etc.
> 
> For Fedora 22 we wish to expand the coverage of Fedora Atomic Host to
> make it installable on "bare metal" so users are able to run Atomic
> Host directly on a server, workstation, etc. without the need for a
> cloud or virtualzation layer underneath the host. 
> 
> == Scope ==
> * Proposal owners: Work with rel-eng to add bare metal support. The
> patches should be in Anaconda already, it should mostly be a matter
> of producing the builds via Koji. 
> 
> * Other developers: May require some coordination with Anaconda
> folks. 
> 
> * Release engineering: Work with Cloud Working Group to turn on
> support for bare metal builds, add bare metal to regularly produced
> builds. 

Umm there is nothing for releng here to do. The proposers should work on
documenting how to do an atomic install and perhaps work with anaconda
folks on a UI to allow selection of atomic trees at install time.

Dennis

> * Policies and guidelines: No obvious impact.
> 
> == Contingency Plan ==
> * Contingency mechanism: If not ready, will not ship for Fedora 22. 
> * Contingency deadline: Beta freeze. 
> * Blocks release? No. 
> * Blocks product? No.  
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