Post for Fedora 27 Atomic Host availability on multi-arch #483
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| Fedora 27 release extends Atomic Host availability from x86_64 to additional architectures which includes 64 bit ARM (AArch64) and PowerPC Little Endian (ppc64le). | ||
| Atomic Host provides immutable operating system tree (OStree) with rollback facility. To learn more, see [Project Atomic website](http://www.projectatomic.io/). |
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maybe we can add a little more excitement to this section: "we are proud to announce we are adding support for multi-arch ...."
also would me nice to mention that they will get updates just like x86_64 trees do.
| Fedora Atomic Host for aarch64 and ppc64le are available in both ISOs and cloudImages- | ||
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Let's make these bullet points by adding the - character to the front of each of them.
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| # Installation | ||
| Atomic Host can be installed as per user preference where they want to install it. For example: on bare metal, virtual machine, cloud setup, etc. | ||
| One of the quick ways is to run `virt-install` |
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Maybe we can add "If you have some aarch64 or ppc64le bare metal we'd love for you to take Atomic Host for a spin. One quick way is to run virt-install on one of theses platforms:"
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@dustymabe Thanks a lot for reviewing the post! I found your review comments useful and have incorporated those changes. PR has been updated with review comments. Additionally, I made separate download link sub-section for both architectures. |
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| # Installation | ||
| Atomic Host can be installed as per user preference where they want to install it - on bare metal, virtual machine, cloud setup and so on. |
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I understand that UEFI is a requirement of the alt-arch ISOs? It would be nice to have some detail here, caveats, special conditions, etc.
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From Atomic Host package install list (https://pagure.io/fedora-atomic/blob/f27/f/fedora-atomic-host-base.json) , I see that UEFI requirement is only for aarch64. ppc64le runs without UEFI. I will update UEFI requirement for aarch64. Can also add a note that aarch64 iso install is not yet supported on Single Board Computer e.g. RPi3, Pine64.
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| # Installation | ||
| Atomic Host can be installed as per user preference where they want to install it - on bare metal, virtual machine, cloud setup and so on. | ||
| If you have some aarch64 or ppc64le hardware, we'd love for you to take Atomic Host for a spin. One quick way is to run `virt-install` on one of theses platforms: |
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What's virt-install? What are the requirements for it? What software provides support for it?
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Okay, will add details about virt-install.
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| * `Running containers` - One can easily run a container image available locally or from a registry. For example, running hello-world container image from docker.io registry on ppc64le machine: |
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Do we have any information on when FLIBS will have alt-arch containers?
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Checked with Adam Miller, FLIBS for multi-arch container image build is currently on hold.
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See comments. Also, if I can get a pic of my Aarch box running atomic, I'll add that to the blog post. |
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Thanks @jberkus for reviewing the post! |
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Updated Installation section as per suggestion from @jberkus |
Signed-off-by: Sinny Kumari <sinny@redhat.com>
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Updated download url links for ISOs and cloudImages. Post is ready from my end. |
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@sinnykumari how does this match up with the article you've submitted for Fedora Magazine? |
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Closing, as this has been replaced by #491 |
Contents of post is mostly complete except missing download link of ISO and cloudImages. They will be added once officially available.