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The exact quote is “Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s content, the foundation of our application ecosystem will remain our only Linux offering” The key point is “cont

The exact quote is “Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s content, the foundation of our application ecosystem will remain our only Linux offering” The key point is “content”, which means the packages and kernel. Atomic itself is only based on RHEL content at the same schedule as RHEL (rpm-ostree and some of the tooling is the difference). So it’s not quite about Container Linux the concept being dead, just that Red Hat isn’t going to create a new packaging stream (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, SUSE are all independent streams) because then Red Hat would have to duplicate all that work. I can’t speak to what the plans will be, but the FAQ is not saying Container Linux is dead. Disclaimer: Red Hat employee

kuschku 9y ago
That's a nice way to talk around the bush, but that doesn't solve the issue that, without warning or deprecation plan container linux will at some point just stop working. There's no timeline or FAQ telling us how we can keep our container linux deployments, with the same software, with the same configs, working for the next years.
- smarterclayton 9y ago
  I don’t think anything has been decided yet about the fate of Container Linux. I do think there is a strong desire to find a path that doesn’t leave users like yourself high and dry. Hopefully more specifics will be coming soon.
- smarterclayton 9y ago
  This is the current official message: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c1dM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c... We plan to revise and update this as soon as we have plans in place.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Okay, where does that tell me how updates wil continue until you have a plan? Will they just continue being maintained by CoreOS? Will they stop? What is happening now? If we'll have to manually migrate, how much time will we get before we have to? How much time will we get between you announcing a plan, and it being put into action? When can we expect a plan? We've got no info, and are supposed to run production systems with that. This is a corporate acquisition, these things don't happen randomly. Why was there no plan made ahead of time? I'm disappointed and confused.

kuschku 9y ago

That's a nice way to talk around the bush, but that doesn't solve the issue that, without warning or deprecation plan container linux will at some point just stop working. There's no timeline or FAQ telling us how we can keep our container linux deployments, with the same software, with the same configs, working for the next years.

smarterclayton 9y ago
I don’t think anything has been decided yet about the fate of Container Linux. I do think there is a strong desire to find a path that doesn’t leave users like yourself high and dry. Hopefully more specifics will be coming soon.
smarterclayton 9y ago
This is the current official message: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c1dM https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/coreos-user/GR4YlF2c... We plan to revise and update this as soon as we have plans in place.
- kuschku 9y ago
  Okay, where does that tell me how updates wil continue until you have a plan? Will they just continue being maintained by CoreOS? Will they stop? What is happening now? If we'll have to manually migrate, how much time will we get before we have to? How much time will we get between you announcing a plan, and it being put into action? When can we expect a plan? We've got no info, and are supposed to run production systems with that. This is a corporate acquisition, these things don't happen randomly. Why was there no plan made ahead of time? I'm disappointed and confused.