On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> If you >> don't have python, you don't have yum/dnf which means updating your >> kernel in your cloud image at _runtime_ is a PITA. > > OSTree has built in support for updating the kernel at "runtime". The fact > that it does so atomically in concert with the rest of userspace is an > important aspect of how it works. > > Systems (by default) have two kernels and two userspaces which share storage; > if both userspace trees reference the same kernel, the storage isn't duplicated. > > If you aren't >> updating your kernels at runtime and are instead relying on the whole >> image to be respun (ala Atomic or otherwise) > > There appears to be some confusion here - Atomic/rpm-ostree is > definitely capable of incremental upgrades that install a new kernel > at "runtime", there's no "whole image to be respun". > > The tree is currently composed on a build server, not on the client, > and it is a fresh installroot every time, but clients only download > objects which have changed. Right, I know that. The confusion here isn't about how Atomic works. The confusion stems from the fact that I thought Atomic was going off to do its own thing, and the Cloud images would be non-Atomic images. If that isn't the case, the OK but I've missed that as well. >> Secondly, isn't a lack of python in the cloud image going to impact >> their ability to be managed via things like >> ansible/puppet/chef/whatever? > > Mainly Ansible...Chef and Puppet both require agents. Sure, but ansible is kind of a big thing to lose by default. josh _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct