Fedora Atomic (Host)

Fedora Atomic is a sub-spin of the Cloud product in Fedora that is an implementation of the Atomic Host pattern defined by http://projectatomic.io

See the original change: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Atomic_Cloud_Image as well as the updated https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AtomicHost

Tools and source files

The fedora-atomic-docker-host.json file is the core manifest defining what goes into the host (ostree) content.

The rpm-ostree tool is invoked in two places inside Fedora infrastructure.

First, the release OSTree commits (used to generate pre-release trees) are created by:

https://pagure.io/releng

The updates trees are generated inside bodhi:

https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/blob/d54c77b94f8a2ca5924ada9eb2a085d7f8e2cb8a/bodhi/consumers/masher.py#L351 https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedmsg-atomic-composer

In both case, rpm-ostree makes an OSTree commit from a set of RPM packages, which clients then replicate.

This git repository holds the core manifest file fedora-atomic-docker-host.json that is used for that process.

To run an rpm-ostree compose locally, do something like:

if ! test -d repo; then mkdir -p repo && ostree --repo=repo init --mode=archive-z2; fi
rpm-ostree compose --repo=repo tree fedora-atomic/fedora-atomic-docker-host.json

Later tools like rpm-ostree-toolbox will consume this OSTree commit, placing the content into several image types like an installer, a cloud image, a PXE-to-Live image, etc.

Cloud images

Cloud (VM) images are generated inside Koji (using ImageFactory -> Anaconda), using the tree content (note use of the ostreesetup Kickstart verb).

The spin-kickstarts for Fedora is here: https://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git

The images are started via the above releng git repository, and a list of Koji tasks can be found here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?state=all&owner=masher&view=flat&method=createImage&order=-id

Installer

Installer is different for 2 reasons: - Embeds the OSTree content (unlike mainline, the OS is assembled on the server side) - Uses different partitioning scheme - https://github.com/projectatomic/fedora-productimg-atomic

To build it, you use lorax. However, lorax presently assumes that host = target (i.e. if you want to build a Fedora 22 Anaconda, you need a Fedora 22 host). You can choose to use either mock or docker (or some other container tool), or VMs of course.

Currently Fedora rel-eng runs lorax inside mock: https://pagure.io/releng/blob/master/f/scripts/run-pungi#_62

For Project Atomic we developed rpm-ostree-toolbox which uses Docker/ImageFactory to run lower level tools like lorax; it takes a high level config file called config.ini.

However, for Fedora it is now a bit out of date because it hasn't been updated to match how Fedora rel-eng now runs lorax; specifically the config files are duplicated with the content in https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/spin-kickstarts.git/tree/atomic-installer

For some information on how this developed, see: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6119

But, to use it, get a clone of this git repo, then something like:

rpm-ostree-toolbox installer --ostreerepo repo -c fedora-atomic/config.ini -o installer

PXE-to-Live

• dgilmore wanted QA process for gating respins of this (Theoretically similar to cloud image updates)
• Concern how often to respin

Alt.fedoraproject.org: public mirror space for arbitrary content

• Server atomic01.qa.fedoraproject.org rsyncs to this
• Managed via ansible: https://github.com/cgwalters/fedora-atomic-infra

• Run rpm-ostree-toolbox by hand rpm-ostree-toolbox liveimage -o scratch/pxetolive --tdl fedora-atomic/fedora-atomic-22.tdl -k spin-kickstarts/fedora-cloud-atomic-pxetolive.ks -c fedora-atomic/config.ini --overwrite

• Old style script for running composes https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree-toolbox/tree/master/src/scripts

• Current state: Run by hand

• New idea: set up jenkins

• For event driven: respond to fedmsg (git commits and yum repositories)

Gaps

• No GPG signing (On either Fedora or CentOS)

Bodhi and updates

• https://lists.projectatomic.io/projectatomic-archives/atomic/2015-June/msg00000.html
• https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedmsg-atomic-composer