Welcome to Fedora CoreOS

Hi everyone. If you saw my talk at DevConf.cz this year

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiCTTHoxv5c&t=890s), you’ll

remember I discussed the Fedora / Red Hat relationship, and

specifically how Fedora has historically worked with new

technologies that come our way through acquisitions made by our

primary sponsor.



Little did I know, but at that very moment, something huge was in

the works, and when my plane landed back in Boston my phone blew up

with messages about CoreOS joining Red Hat.



That’s obviously gigantic news, directly relevant to Fedora, since

we are the project Red Hat depends on for operating-system level

integration and innovation. Now, most of the news is about

Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tectonic, and Quay — but there’s also

Container Linux (the operating system formerly known just as

“CoreOS”). At Red Hat Summit, the company announced and clarified a

bunch of things around product and corporate plans. Now, it’s time

for us to figure out how we can welcome and include the Container

Linux community in the circle of Fedora Friends.





What does this mean for Fedora Atomic Host and other deliverables?

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This isn’t the place for technical details — see “what next?” at

the bottom of this message for more. I expect that over the next

year or so, Fedora Atomic Host will be replaced by a new thing

combining the best from Container Linux and Project Atomic. This

new thing will be “Fedora CoreOS” and serve as the upstream to Red

Hat CoreOS.





What does this mean for the Fedora community?

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Good things! Container Linux is exciting, innovative, and has a

passionate user and developer community. The people who built it

are awesome and well-aligned with the Fedora community foundations.



The “Fedora Editions” strategy intentionally makes space for

exploring emerging areas in operating system distributions. CoreOS

will help us push that even further and bring new ways of doing

things to the project as a whole.





What does this mean for Container Linux users?

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More good things! I know this is kind of scary. Fedora CoreOS is

going to be built from Fedora content rather than in the way it’s

made now. It won’t necessarily be made in the same way we make

Fedora OS deliverables today, though. No matter what, we absolutely

want the CoreOS user experience of “container cluster host OS that

keeps itself up-to-date and you just don’t worry about it”. Again,

technical details are a discussion for elsewhere, but the goal is

for existing Container Linux users to be as happy as — or happier

than! — you are with the OS today.



And here’s the super-important thing: Fedora really is a

community-driven project, and this means that you can get involved

and directly influence how the future Fedora CoreOS works to meet

your needs. If you’re interested and need help getting involved,

don’t hesitate to talk to me, to the Join Fedora team, or to the

developers and community people already working on the project.





Hey, so… “Fedora Core”!

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Everything’s a circle, right? But, this has nothing to do with the

Red Hat vs. external split that was Fedora Core and Extras back in

the day. We absolutely do not want to regress to that kind of

community divide. “Core” just happens to be a pretty catchy name

component for an OS that fits the “small, focused base” concept.

This concept is powerful and useful for today’s information

technology and computing world, and we want to give it proper focus

in Fedora.





Okay, so, what next?

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Visit the new website at https://coreos.fedoraproject.org/.

The project is just getting started, so there's not much there yet,

but we have an initial FAQ.



If you have questions that aren't answered, or just want to get

involved, join in discussion on the new Discourse board

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/coreos, sign up for the the

development mailing list at

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/coreos@list...
and chat on Freenode IRC in #fedora-coreos.







-- 

Matthew Miller

<mattdm@fedoraproject.org>

Fedora Project Leader
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