Workstation/Atomic

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.

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