Hello world!
I want to release to internet my custom immutable rolling-release extreme-simple Linux distribution for Kubernetes deployments.
I was using this distribution for about the last 6 years on production environments (currently used by a few startups and two country's public services). I really think that it could be stable enough to be public published to internet before 2024.
I'm asking for advice before the public release, as licensing, community building, etc.
A few specs about the distribution:
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Rolling release. Just one file (currently less than ~40Mb) that can be bootable from BIOS or UEFI (+secure boot) environments. You can replace this file by the next release or use the included toolkit to upgrade the distribution (reboot/kexec it). Mostly automated distribution releases by each third-party releases (Linux, Systemd, Containerd, KubeAdm, etc).
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HTTP setup. The initial setup could be configured with a YAML file written anywhere in a FAT32 partition or through a local website installer. You can install the distribution or configure KubeAdm (control-plane & worker) from the terminal or the local website.
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Simple, KISS. Everything must be simple for the user, this must be the most important aspect for the distribution. Just upstream software to run a production ready Kubernetes cluster.
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No money-driven. This distribution must be public, and it must allow to be forked at any time by anyone.
A bit of background:
I was using CoreOS before Redhat bought them. I like the immutable distro and A/B release aspect of the CoreOS distribution. After the Redhat acquisition, the CoreOS distribution was over-bloated. I switched to use my own distribution, built with Buildroot. A few years later, I setup the most basic framework to create a Kubernetes cluster without any headache. It's mostly automated (bots checking for new third-party releases as Linux, Systemd, Containerd, KubeAdm, etc; building, testing & signing each release). I already know that building a distribution is too expensive, because of that I programmed few bots that made this job for me. Now days, I only improve the toolkits, and approve the Git requests from thats bots.
Thank you for your time!