Bug 593218

Summary:	coreos-baremetal: a provisioning tool that allows systematic boot and install of nodes
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	James <garftd>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	garftd
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description James 2016-09-08 15:23:01 UTC

CoreOS share many common packages with Gentoo and additionally has packages that 
tremendously aid in cluster provisioning, usage and management. Many of these tools are already in portage (thanks zmedico!). CoreOS-baremetal is another 
fine CoreOS tool that would be a great addition to portage::


https://github.com/coreos/coreos-baremetal


Is compatible with app-emulation/rkt  and dev-db/etcd which are already in portage. Other documents that explain the connection between these CoreOS tools for cluster setup and management:

https://github.com/coreos/coreos-baremetal/blob/master/Documentation/getting-started-rkt.md

https://github.com/coreos/coreos-baremetal/blob/master/Documentation/bootcfg.md

TIA,
James

Comment 1 James 2016-10-17 20:09:19 UTC

Ignition is CoreOS latest provisioning tool [1]. Ignition is useful
as a low level system provisioning tool for a variety of platform uses stated here [2]. "ignition" runs before PID-1 start up which allows  a wide variety
of additional features [3] beyond the Cloud-init package currently found in portage .



[1] https://github.com/coreos/ignition/blob/master/doc/getting-started.md

[2] https://github.com/coreos/ignition/blob/master/doc/supported-platforms.md

[3] https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-ignition.htm