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Atomic Host

Summary

New Fedora product: Fedora Atomic Host, an implementation of the Project Atomic pattern.

This is a continuation and expansion of Changes/Atomic_Cloud_Image.

See also the following related changes:

Owner

  • Name: Cloud SIG / Joe Brockmeier and Colin Walters
  • Email: jzb@fedoraproject.org walters@verbum.org
  • Release notes owner:
  • Product: Atomic Host
  • Responsible WG: Cloud

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 22
  • Last updated: 2014-11-08
  • Tracker bug:

Detailed Description

The original Changes/Atomic_Cloud_Image was a host system delivered just as a cloud image. This Change for Fedora 22 expands it to a multitude of delivery vehicles:

  • Bare metal support via Anaconda
  • Cloud providers
    • OpenStack/KVM qcow2
    • EC2 AMI
    • Google Compute Engine
  • Vagrant boxes (OS X and vagrant-libvirt)
  • Ultra-minimal LiveOS image designed for PXE booting diskless servers

Benefit to Fedora

Containers are a powerful and flexible way to deploy and manage server applications, with numerous benefits such as density, ease of deployment, and orchestration. The Atomic Host is optimized for running containers, coming out of the box with storage tuned

Scope

  • Proposal owners: Maintain kickstart and tree configuration, integration with Anaconda and other tools
  • Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
  • Release engineering: Will need to generate trees during the general Fedora compose process, and generate install media and cloud image based on trees.
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

User Experience

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

  • Blocks product? Yes, Atomic Host

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

New Fedora product: Fedora Atomic Host Image, featuring Docker and tools from Project Atomic.

Docker is an easy to use interface for running application containers on Linux. Fedora is uniquely positioned to provide the best platform for Docker, since this container technology is not a security solution, but can be made reasonably secure when wrapped with SELinux.