Re: [atomic-devel] centos atomic roadmap and future plans

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016, at 05:50 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> i see that the atomic devel list is very active many people working on
> many things and probably there are some clear directions and goals, but
> it's not really clear for outsiders. imho it'd be very useful to clarify
> a few things:

Your questions are very valid, thanks for bringing this up!

> - is the atomic project (mainly the centos part) is independent of
> redhat atomic or it's just a rebuild of redhat atomic (similar to
> redhat->centos).

There are two aspects to CentOS, and indeed this is very confusing.
See:

https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup

The "CentOS Core"  is purely a rebuild from source of upstream binaries.

Whereas the other SIGs take arbitrary different code on top, newer
versions of things, etc.

> - or atomic (centos) is the test bed for atomic redhat?

I wouldn't say "the" test bed, but certainly several groups in Project
Atomic provide deliverables in CentOS - the ADB team for example.
I would like to more consistently do both CentOS Atomic SIG *and*
Fedora.

> - is there any roadmap or clear priorities, planed deadlines etc?

We still have improvements to make here, I'll put it that way.

> - is there any plan to dockerize those components which currently run on
> the host (eg. kubernetes, etcd)?

Yes.  See previous discussion on this list.

> - what about the openshift components? will them added to atomic project
> or not?

For upstream OpenShift Origin, there is indeed a containerized version
available, and I certainly believe myself that supporting OpenShift should
be a priority for Project Atomic, if not the #1 priority.

> - what about flannel? it'd be dockerized or replaced by openvswitch
> which is used by openshift?

I'm not a networking person, but ideally one of them would respond here...

> - what's the plane to include newer cockpit in atomic host? afais
> cockpit 100 (even 101) released but the 2 days old atomic host update
> only contains version 0.93 from january.

I am actively working on addressing part of this problem with the
more consistent CentOS Atomic SIG builds.

> - who is in charge? i see on the list Josh, Colin, Daniel, Joe and many
> others are working on many different things but can't find anywhere any
> plan or design docs or something.

This partially devolves to the upstream of the individual projects, but
this list should be used for inter-project coordination.