Development work on "Atomic Workstation"

For some background, see:

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AtomicWorkstation
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WorkstationOstree

What this branch does implement a Jenkins job in CentOS CI that combines baseline Fedora 25 content with an overlay of content that auto-builds packages from git of some key projects like ostree/rpm-ostree.

High level design

The goal of the system is to be a workstation, using rpm-ostree for the base OS, and a combination of Docker and Flatpak containers, as well as virtualization tools such as Vagrant.

Status

This project is actively maintained and is ready for use by sophisticated and interested users, but not ready for widespread promotion.

Installing

There is an installer ISO available, and it's been tested to work on bare metal.

Known issues:

• flatpak system repo
• Anaconda autopartitoning - be sure to use /var/home instead of /home
• Installing in libvirt + networking

OSTree remote:

[remote "atomic-ws"]
url=https://ci.centos.org/artifacts/sig-atomic/atomic-ws/ostree/repo/
gpg-verify=false

Branch: atomicws/fedora/x86_64/continuous

Installing inside an existing system

A really neat feature of OSTree is that you can parallel install inside your existing OS.

Using

To manipulate the host, try rpm-ostree upgrade and rpm-ostree install <package>.

You will also likely want to try out using docker in a "pet container" model, where you use yum/dnf inside the container for development building and the like. For example, create a CentOS container with a bind mount on your /srv directory where you store data (separate from your home directory).

docker run -ti --privileged --name c7sh -v /var/srv:/srv centos

From there, you can do things like yum-builddep foo or and in general run development tools.

Future work

• GNOME Software support for both rpm-ostree/flatpak and possibly docker
• ostree live updates for package layering
• automated tests that run on this content