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Fedora CoreOS Test Week
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Fedora CoreOS

Date 2022-09-29 to 2022-10-03
Time all week

Website QA/Test Days
IRC #fedora-coreos (webirc)
Mailing list test


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If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Fedora CoreOS issue tracker, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?[edit]

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Fedora CoreOS

Who's available?[edit]

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

For real time help, please join us on the IRC: #fedora-coreos[?] on https://libera.chat/.

Documentation is also available here. Documentation feedback is welcome through chat, mailing list, github tracker and in the form of a pull request to the documentation sources.

Prerequisites for Test Day[edit]

  • Virtual machine (x86_64, aarch64, s390x)
  • Test day Image

Grab images/artifacts/information for the most current next stream release (37) from our download page: https://getfedora.org/en/coreos/download?tab=cloud_operators&stream=next

How to test?[edit]

Run the tests[edit]

Visit the results page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.

Reporting bugs[edit]

Please report all bugs, issues or enhancement proposals to the Fedora CoreOS issue tracker.

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC #fedora-coreos[?], #fedora-test-day[?] or #fedora-qa[?] and we will help you.

Test Results ===== Installation =[edit]

User Profile Virtual install Bare Metal install References
ersen Virtualbox
Pass pass
ersen v 36.20220906.3.2
Pass pass
geraldosimiao fedora-coreos-37.20220918.1.1
Pass pass
Pass pass
nielsenb KVM, x86_64, fedora-coreos-37.20220918.1.1
Pass pass
Pass pass
ravanelli fedora-coreos-37.20220918.1.1
Pass pass

Cloud launch[edit]

User Profile AWS Azure GCP DigitalOcean VMWare Exoscale IBM Cloud VirtualBox Vultr OpenStack Alibaba References
fifofonix vSphere 7.0.3.00500 on NUCs
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[1]
  1. Had to deploy with govc import.ova -name ${VM_NAME} ${FCOS_OVA} as I am not permissioned to load FCOS_OVA to library.
jasonbrooks
Pass pass
jlebon 37.20220918.1.1/x86_64
Pass pass
[1]
  1. No issues. Ignition config fetched, SSH works fine, no failed units, networking seems fine.
mnguyen
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Installed with no issues
ravanelli ravanelli
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Tested via Mac using VirtualBox version 6.1.34 r150636
sohank2602
Pass pass
[1]
  1. An FCOS VM boots up using an ignition config without any issues.

aarch64[edit]

User Profile AWS Virtual install Bare Metal install References
jskladan Disregard
Warning warn
[1]
  1. Just testing Testdays-Web changes

Advanced configuration[edit]

User Profile Static networking Complex partitioning Building containers Containerized service Kernel Tuning (sysctl) Modifying Kernel Arguments OS extensions Configuring SwapOnZRAM Configuring Time Zone Debugging with Toolbox Customizing NIC name Setting alternatives Node counting KDump via Ignition References
Nemric Fedora CoreOS 37.20220918.1.1 automatically updated
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[1]
Warning warn
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
Pass pass
[4]
  1. Build my own container with success in rootless mode
  2. Built via a containerized jenkins agent, launched at startup (as root), that drive podman from inside the container via a socket. https://github.com/Relativ-IT/Jenkins-Agent
  3. variant: fcos version: 1.4.0 storage: files: - path: /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf mode: 0644 contents: inline: | # This config file enables a /dev/zram0 device with the default settings [zram0]
  4. Only followed https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/debugging-with-toolbox/
Nemric Fedora CoreOS 37.20220918.1.1 automaticly updated
Pass pass
dustymabe 37.20221003.10.0 on libvirt VM
Pass pass
[1]
fifofonix
Pass pass
[1]
  1. - Additionally, confirmed configuring countme for corporate proxy via systemd drop-in. - Re-deployed some servers opting into countme (long deferred!), others will opt in as re-deployed.
fifofonix Newly provisioned 37.20220918.1.1
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Chose to install open-vm-tools instead of vim: /usr/bin/rpm-ostree install --idempotent --allow-inactive open-vm-tools
geraldosimiao fedora-coreos-37.20220918.1.1
Pass pass
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
  1. Tested with luks
jlebon 37.20220918.1.1/x86_64/QEMU
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. No issues. Tried partitioning and LUKS reprovisioning.
  2. Works fine, yielded a docs update: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-docs/pull/468
nielsenb KVM, x86_64, fedora-coreos-37.20220918.1.1
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass

Upgrade[edit]

User Profile Switch stream Bootloader updates References
dustymabe 37.20220929.10.0 on libvirt VM
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fifofonix Existing 36.20220918.2.2 MacOS VMWare Fusion Node
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[1]
  1. Upgrade to 'next' 37.20220918.1.1 completed successfully including triggering of a custom systemd unit that re-applies custom crypto settings (systemd unit invoking privileged podman call to update-crypto-policies).

Tutorials[edit]

User Profile References

Miscellaneous[edit]

User Profile Documentation Exploratory testing References
fifofonix Newly provisoned 'next' nodes on AWS
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Investigated setting FIPS mode via systemd/podman unit and kernel parameter addition. Seems to work potentially closing long standing issue (https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/302). Needs independent confirmation.