yahooligan2230

Not at all happy with things right now. You guys abruptly killed CoreOS which was great and left us to fend for ourselves. Fedora CoreOS doesn’t cut it and we don’t want open shift. We will need to move to either bottle-rocket or flatcar. A team member evaluated both and we leaning towards b-rocket since flatcar has a higher risk of dying by running out of funding during COVID (seen this movie before with CoreOS). Amazon’s customer support team is also a lot better.

We use 5000+ CoreOS nodes in production and never want to go back to replacing VMs with new images for each update again. In-place immutable updates are more efficient and faster. Unlike RPM based OSes that are hard to patch, transactional updates provide a safe way to perform safe in-place updates instead of wasteful operations such as replacing full VMs for small OS updates.