Re: Workflow and other problems with the Fedora container infrastructure

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 8:40 AM Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:42:30AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >    On Sat, Jan 15, 2022, 6:57 PM Kevin Fenzi <[1]kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >      On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 02:14:19PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >      >
> >      > One of the things that has recently happened in the Koji space is the
> >      > addition of a kiwi-build task to build images using the KIWI tool[1].
> >      >
> >      > KIWI supports building all kinds of operating system images, including
> >      > OCI containers. The Fedora Cloud WG is poking at the idea of using
> >      > KIWI for the cloud image to replace the unmaintained and brittle
> >      > ImageFactory, and we could also look at doing container builds with
> >      > KIWI to replace the OpenShift Atomic Reactor system. That would
> >      > drastically simplify the architecture and make container image builds
> >      > considerably more reasonable for the Container SIG and any other
> >      > stakeholders.
> >
> >      Yeah, thats quite interesting. I would be happy to move to a pipeline
> >      thats less fragile here. :)
> >
> >      There's also talk about moving things to use ImageBuilder, but I don't
> >      think it does containers.
> >
> >    We can, and should, have RFEs for Image Builder to do containers.  I know
> >    we need this internally as well.  It may farm that out to buildah in the
> >    background or something, but that remains to be determined.
> >    In the interest of commonality across the Fedora/CentOS/RHEL ecosystem, I
> >    really think using Image Builder as the tool to build images is the best
> >    approach.
>
> The underlying tool, osbuild, can already build container. They can be made
> available as tarball which one can just `podman import` afterward :)

Yes.  Why make people do that instead of just publishing an OCI
compliant image?  I know why, but that's the RFE :)

josh
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