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Plans for Atomic Workstation in F27

Participants: Kalev Lember, David King, Alex Larsson, Matthias Clasen, Richard Hughes, Colin Walters, Patrick Uiterwick.

Scope

We want to have an atomic workstation offering in F27, with the following:

  • installable using anaconda
  • receive regular updates during the F27 lifetime
  • support for updating the ostree image in gnome-software
  • rpm layering using rpm-ostree (commandline only)
  • add container-focused developer tools - oc cluster up

Current State

  • Separate efforts:
    • rpm-ostree for base
    • flatpak for desktop apps
    • package layering for random things in between
    • pet containers
  • Anaconda needs work to provide a smooth experience
  • rpm-ostree layering works well, for the most part, but you need to reboot into the new image

Until we have tree building working in the fedora infrastructure, https://pagure.io/atomic-ws is the best place to get started.

We have building working in the fedora infrastructure now: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/latest-Fedora-Rawhide/work/x86_64/Workstation/ostree_installer/images/boot.iso

Tasks

Critical for F27

  • get gnome-software to support rpm-ostreed (Kalev)
    • need to sync with endless ostree effort
    • look at cockpit for an example of a UI on top of rpm-ostreed dbus api
  • Talk to QA team about testing (Matthias)
  • Make sure we compose trees often enough
  • Follow up with Owen about building flatpaks from rpms

Can be post F27

  • Provide update descriptions and similar metadata
  • Layering without reboot for new installs
  • Mirroring for ostree (Colin)
    • idea: delta-only repos
    • git-like packing requires smart servers which our mirrors are not

Notes from April 19

  • Patrick got nightly composes in the Fedora infrastructure almost going. There was a problem with building the install image. Expect this to work very soon
  • Owen presented an update on his plan for building flatpaks from rpms: (insert link here)
  • Kalev will add polkit support to rpm-ostreed, so we can use its dbus api directly from gnome-software
  • David will set up koji and work on the rebuild-rpms-for-/app part of Owen's plan