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calm-cartoon-19820

08/17/2022, 4:00 PM
hasn’t even been any commits in 4 months — is k3os still active / part of the future with rancher ?
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prehistoric-barista-70029

08/19/2022, 2:31 PM
It's dead. The maintainer is not working at Rancher anymore and apparently Rancher has no intention of making this a product
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calm-cartoon-19820

08/19/2022, 2:37 PM
What are the options you know of to run k3s tightly coupled w/ an OS ? do you know a reason it died?
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prehistoric-barista-70029

08/19/2022, 3:01 PM
I mean I just told you, the maintainer left Rancher...Rancher has also been bought by SUSE which has their own OS, so I can see why they would not want to invest in another OS.
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calm-cartoon-19820

08/19/2022, 4:30 PM
Thanks @prehistoric-barista-70029
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glamorous-accountant-39131

08/25/2022, 10:44 AM
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melodic-umbrella-19641

08/25/2022, 8:54 PM
Another option is MicroOS, which SuSE have promoted as the replacement to K3OS. I'm working on integrating my stuff with MicroOS right now
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magnificent-airplane-36357

10/17/2022, 7:50 AM
what’s your experience with MicroOS so far?
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melodic-umbrella-19641

12/05/2022, 8:40 PM
My apologies for the very late reply. I’ve integrated my stuff with MicroOS now. • The snapshot filesystem (btrfs) seems great • Upgrades are a little harder because K3OS writing from a docker image was much easier. I had to create an RPM mirror and rsync the opensuse mirrors, but it works • using Ignition/Combustion is much better than cloud-init. It runs once but is much more powerful (but if you boot without the Ignition volume, it wont run Ignition again until you delete the first_boot_happened marker file) • Installing k3s on it was a little awkward (you add the Rancher RPM repo, install k3s-install, then run it) but I got it working • You can install tools on the OS, which is much more convenient than K3OS • Auto-upgrades and reboots using KuReD is working great
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