Agenda for the Flatcar Developer Sync on Wednesday, 22nd of July 2026, 2:30pm UTC

[t-lo]

In our monthly Flatcar developer syncs maintainers review development / roadmap progress, discuss special projects like OS composability, secure / trusted boot, vendor support, and CNCF incubation status. We provide an overview of ongoing work, give an outlook of future work, and plan the next release.

Join if you're curious about current or future Flatcar development and/or to raise visibility of a feature, bug, or PR.

• Jitsi Link: https://meet.flatcar.org/OfficeHours
• Youtube live stream / recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/DGzw5273DJo
  • All recordings: https://www.youtube.com/@FlatcarLinux/live
• Community Calls calendar (all future calls): link
  • iCal version: link

Administrative tasks checklist before the meeting

See https://github.com/flatcar/flatcar-app-jitsi?tab=readme-ov-file#operate-jitsi for thorough runbook.

• Update Youtube Studio with upcoming stream information, copy streaming link
• Update this Agenda with streaming link
• Create and post announcements to Matrix, Discord, CNCF and Kubernetes slack
• Update matrix channel Youtube widget

Welcome

• Brief intro/check-in of the new participants in the Jitsi call. Please introduce yourself and share what brings you here today.

Monthly Metrics and Advisory Review

1. Discuss the latest Monthly Metrics Report / Metrics and Trends Doc
   • First-Time Contributor in the last month:
     • @jheidel: commits - focused on Exoscale work
     • @hrak: commits - 2 commits in sysext-bakery
     • @skyblaster: commit - 1 commit in sysext-bakery
2. Review of last month's advisory stats in the latest Metrics Reports
   a. Advisory status and planning: Flatcar tactical, release planning, and roadmap (view)
   Added item: Security presentation: LLM (Dongsu), VEX scanning

Ongoing and Planned Tasks Review

Discussion

1. Roadmap review: (@t-lo) VIEW
2. Projects status review:
   a. CNCF Graduation process - Steering/Technical Committee Update (@John15321 / @LexiNadolski ) - VIEW
   Added item: Community platform update - Discord (300% increase in messages!)
   b. Flatcar infrastructure status (@tormath1) - VIEW
   Added item: Jenkins automation and staging cluster. Looking forward to a quiet time around summer time to update Jenkins.
   c. Nebraska status (@ervcz) - VIEW
   Nebraska OIDC Refactor with breaking change
3. Maintainer team tactical / implementation (aka "line work") status review (@sayanchowdhury): VIEW
4. Release Planning (@sayanchowdhury) - VIEW
   Added item: Release tracker update
   Added item: Current Beta also has ClusterAPI issue

Open Mic: Work to assign / User issues and PRs to discuss?

• In comments

Q&A

• Questions from community participants, answered by the Flatcar maintainers

Administrative tasks after meeting concluded

• Create a new Github discussion for the next Flatcar developer sync: https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/discussions/new?category=flatcar-developer-sync
• Close this discussion as "Resolved".

[t-lo]

• @t-lo Discuss moving the meeting to Thursday afternoon
• Also, FrOSCon presence (booth)

[LexiNadolski]

• Discuss the LF mentorship program

[LexiNadolski]

https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/issues/new?template=lfx-program-proposal.yml
https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/tree/main/mentors

[LexiNadolski]

I will put a process together - sheet for ideas + lexi to submit PR based on availability -TO DO by 23rd

[John15321]

Should we add the LLM Sec and Vex stuff in here?

[LexiNadolski]

added under advisory status and planning

[John15321]

Thank you!

[John15321]

• https://github.com/flatcar/vex-automation
• https://github.com/flatcar/security-triage

[John15321]

VEX:

• Current state of the security pipeline: https://github.com/flatcar/vex-automation/blob/main/docs/current-state.md
• Plan for the upcoming vex implementation: https://github.com/flatcar/vex-automation/blob/main/docs/plan.md

LLM

• LLM sec current documentation: https://github.com/flatcar/security-triage/blob/john15321/docs-temp/docs/workflow-architecture.md
• LLM OICD framework: https://github.com/flatcar/security-triage/blob/main/docs/github-actions-foundry-oidc.md