Build Fedora IoT Artefacts with Image Builder

Summary

Build the key Fedora IoT artefacts such as the raw images and the traditional anaconda installer with Image Builder.

Owner

Name: Paul Whalen
Email: pwhalen@redhat.com
Name: Ondřej Budai
Email: ondrej@budai.cz
Name: Peter Robinson
Email: pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org
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Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 37
Last updated: 2022-03-29
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Detailed Description

The intention for Fedora IoT was to always use Image Builder for building release artefacts but it wasn't initially ready to do that. With the work being done as part of "RHEL for Edge" the Fedora IoT deliverables now sadly trail behind the features and functionality of the downstream. This will move all existing deliverable artefacts over to being created with Image Builder which will allow us to bring Fedora IoT back to being the true upstream for RHEL for Edge and allow us to use the leading edge that is Fedora to continue to innovate in the Edge and IoT space.

Benefit to Fedora

The benefit to Fedora is to allow the IoT Edition to go back to being the true upstream for RHEL for Edge and for Fedora to be where all the cool new innovation on the edge is being done.

Scope

Proposal owners:
- Test building IoT artefacts with Image Builder to ensure they're consistent with the existing ones
- Update to Fedora IoT profiles in Image Builder
- Update to pungi configs to move over the artefact creation

Other developers:
- No impact

Release engineering: #XXXX
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

There is no upgrade impact. Existing IoT users will upgrade as before as only new release artefacts will use the new mechanism. The deployment of the artefacts should not initially change with them being created with Image Builder. There may well be new enhancements in the future but those are out of scope of this change.

How To Test

All Fedora IoT artefacts should be consumable and testable as before.

User Experience

There should be no IoT users, there is no impact to non IoT Edition users.

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: Roll back to the current means of generating images.
Contingency deadline: Beta
Blocks release? No.
Blocks product? No.

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