Goals

This project's toplevel goal is to create base bootable container images from Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream packages.

Status

This is an in-development project not intended for production use yet.

Trying it out

See install.md.

Differences from Fedora CoreOS

Fedora CoreOS today is not small; there are multiple reasons for this, but primarily because it was created in a pre-bootable-container time. Not everyone wants e.g. moby-engine.

But going beyond size, the images produced by this project will focus on a container-native flow. We will ship a (container) image that does not include Ignition for example.

Differences from RHEL CoreOS

We sometimes say that RHEL CoreOS has FCOS as an upstream but this is only kind of true; RHEL CoreOS includes a subset of FCOS content, and is lifecycled with OCP.

An explicit goal of this project is to produce bootable container images that can be used as base images for RHEL CoreOS; for more on this, see e.g. https://github.com/openshift/os/issues/799

Differences from RHEL for Edge

It is an explicit goal that CentOS boot also becomes a "base input" to RHEL for Edge.

What does CentOS boot means

From Wikipedia:

Bamboo Forest, Arashiyama Bamboo Grove or CentOS boot Bamboo Forest, is a natural forest of bamboo in Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan

Demonstration base images for Project CentOS boot

These images are technology demonstrators, not for production use. The intention is that these images are generated by the OS vendor or distribution.
Or, you can fork this repository and generate your own via rpm-ostree compose image.

Operating system sources

At the moment these demonstration builds use Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream 9.

Tiers

Tier 0

This is the basic tier; it has effectively just:

• kernel systemd selinux-policy-targeted bootc

You are generally going to need to generate derived images from this; installing it on its own will boot to a system with no automatic networking support, no SSH, and no default passwords etc.

Tier 1

This is larger system.

• NetworkManager, chrony
• rpm-ostree (to install packages and in case it's useful "day 2")
• openssh-server

At the current time, it does not include Ignition or cloud-init; so you will still need to derive from it in order to inject a mechanism to log in in many cases. However, it will work to install it using e.g. Anaconda and set up users and passwords that way.

Image matrix (Fedora)

• quay.io/centos-boot/fedora-tier-1:eln

More about image sources

The current manifest definitions tier-0 and tier-1 were forked from Fedora CoreOS, but significantly cut down.

The existing content set is obviously subject to change and debate.

Building

Here's an example command:

sudo rpm-ostree compose image --authfile ~/.config/containers/myquay.json --cachedir=cache -i --format=ociarchive centos-tier-0-stream9.yaml centos-tier-0-stream9.ociarchive

In some situations, copying to a local .ociarchive file is convenient. You can also push to a registry with --format=registry.

More information at https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/container/

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