Major-changes: Document the switch to OCI for updates #698
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With the f42 rebase we will switch disk images to use OCI for updates. While this is transparent for most users, it's still a big technical change so it's worth mentionning it, at least so users using can look into it. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CoreOSOstree2OCIUpdates coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#1823
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| This change has been introduced first in bootimages for the testing stream, for the Fedora 42 rebase. After a few releases |
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| This change has been introduced first in bootimages for the testing stream, for the Fedora 42 rebase. After a few releases | |
| This change will be introduced first in new disk images for the testing stream, as part of the rebase to Fedora 42. After a few releases |
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| |`next` | 2025-02-04 |
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Those dates may change so let's write the condition (first release on F42) here instead. We'll update the page once we have the exact releases.
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| With this change, the hosts will pull updates from the Quay.io container registry instead. | ||
| This is a transparent change, except for proxied environnements, as the nodes will reach to a different address for updates. | ||
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| Note: Disk images will be updated first, so new installations of F42 based Fedora CoreOS will use OCI images. |
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| Note: Disk images will be updated first, so new installations of F42 based Fedora CoreOS will use OCI images. | |
| Note: Disk images will be updated first, so new installations of Fedora CoreOS based on Fedora 41 will use OCI images. |
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| Currently, Fedora CoreOS hosts pull updates from the OSTree repository. | ||
| With this change, the hosts will pull updates from the Quay.io container registry instead. | ||
| This is a transparent change, except for proxied environnements, as the nodes will reach to a different address for updates. |
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We claim that it's transparent and then mention exceptions. Let's say that it should be transparent but the following points may require attention: proxy configuration, etc.
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| After a few releases, we will migrate existing nodes. | ||
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| This change is only scoped to switching to OCI as the transport for Fedora CoreOS content. | ||
| While derivation of these Fedora CoreOS images is possible with containers builds and use bootc, this comes with limitations: |
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With the f42 rebase we will switch disk images to use OCI for updates. While this is transparent for most users, it's still a big technical change so it's worth mentionning it, at least so users using can look into it.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CoreOSOstree2OCIUpdates coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#1823