This post explains how to install K3s on Fedora CoreOS. K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution and Fedora CoreOS is an image-based Linux distribution for containerized workloads. With Fedora CoreOS, you get a bulletproof, minimal host system with atomic updates. Installing K3s allows you to deploy applications using standard Kubernetes tools like kubectl and helm. Honestly, why wouldn’t you use production-grade container orchestration to self-host an RSS reader or whatever? Table of contents Where we’re going Prerequisites Create the ISO Testing in a VM Install on bare metal from USB Install K3s Connect to the server with kubectl Configure graceful node shutdown Reinstall without losing data Conclusion Where we’re going By the end of this tutorial, we will have created a USB stick to install Fedora CoreOS and K3s on a bare metal machine. Booting from the USB stick transforms any computer into a fully-functional, single-node Kubernetes cluster!

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Fedora Linux 43 was released today [1]. The Fedora CoreOS testing stream has been rebased and is currently rolling out. This update will come to the stable stream in a few weeks. As of Fedora 43 updates are now built via a container workflow [2] and exclusively shipped via the quay.io/fedora/fedora-coreos container registry. This means updates no longer exist in the OSTree repo at https://ostree.fedoraproject.org [3]. For other Fedora 43 related changes you can see the full list of Fedora ...

Podman’s quadlet system combined with systemd timers makes container updates easy and automatic.

Converting Butane to Ignition on Boot We’ve received anecdotal evidence over the years that the transpilation step where you must convert a Butane YAML configuration into Ignition JSON before staring your CoreOS instance is a pain for users to understand and implement. CoreOS developers also feel this pain at times. What if you could feed either a Butane YAML config or an Ignition JSON config to your instance and it would just do the right thing regardless?

The Fedora COSMIC Spin provides the COSMIC Desktop Environment from System76. A modern desktop that features advanced functionality and a responsive design. With optional Auto-tiling, newly opened windows arrange themselves in a grid. Use tiled, classic "floating" windows, or a mix of both across all workspaces. Have fun customizing theme colors to your liking. Save your favorite themes to your desktop and share with your friends.

Over the past few months I’ve spent some time on-and-off working onSigul and some related tools. In particular, Iimplemented most of a new Sigulclient,primar...

…I Containers (#1973) Signed-off-by: Adam Miller