Red Hat OpenShift London 2022 OpenShift Commons Gathering, 6 Jul 2022

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From YouTube: OKD: OpenShift's Open Source Road Map Brian Innes (IBM)

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OKD: OpenShift's Open Source Road Map
Brian Innes (IBM)

This OpenShift Commons Gathering was held on July 6, 2022 live in London, England

https://okd.io
https://commons.openshift.org

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So I'm brian ennis, I work at ibm, but I'm here today to represent the okd community and the working group. So a quick show of hands how many people have heard of or use okd wow a lot more than dublin. So that's what we're going to talk about and for those that don't know, okd is actually a community version of openshift it's free of charge. This is where the sales folks absolutely hate me, because you don't even need a red hat account it's freely available. You can just download it and stand it up.

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It is the open shift source code, but instead of being built on red, hot enterprise, linux we use fedora linux, so fedora is where all the new features arrive. First, it's the most dynamic um version of linux that red hat uses- and this is also the first place that the openshift source code meets the new feature. So.

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That's how you get access to it, okd dot, io is our website um and we stay in line with the openshift container platform. So currently, 410 is our current release um when 411 comes out, there's already nightlys available, but when 411 comes out, we'll actually have the 90s available and then we'll switch over. So we do stay in touch and for those that haven't seen it. This is what it looks like. So it is open shift.

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The only difference is the logo in the top corner um and what you'll also notice if you watch the red hat what's next presentations when they have screenshots?

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That logo appears quite often because this is also used within red hats, for technology previews and when red hatters need to get access to new features that aren't yet in red hat linux. They'll use, okd.

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So we're going to do is look at some of the things coming up in okd, so the road map. This is where I may need to get some notes.

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So the first thing we want to talk about is center stream core os. So at the minute there isn't a core os for centos stream, but centos stream is the halfway point between fedora and red hat enterprise linux. You can think of it as it's. What red hat enterprise linux next version is going to be? It is that and what red hat are doing is they're, creating a core os on centos stream. It's going to be called s-cos and it's going to be created just for okd.

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So, like red hat enterprise, linux is created just for the container platform. Centos stream, core os is going to be created for okd, and what they're going to do is they're asking us the community so outside red hat. Is this something useful? Is this something we want um they're going to release a preview version? It's probably going to be july august time um and we're going to arrange sort of some experiments where people can play with it get to get to do with it.

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But if we want this as a community, red hat will actually then do a dual release where you can have okd on f cos: fedora core os, that's where the latest and greatest stuff is going to come. That's not going to go away! That is going to be where the new features hit the code first, but they're also offering this hardened version, this centos stream core os version, and if the community wants it, they will actually do that dual release. If you don't want it, nobody uses it.

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That'll just stay within red hat, so I'm going to ask you to sign up for a twitter account at the end and that's where we'll announce the availability and we'll also then ask for feedback. If this is something that we, the community want to have, or whether it's something we we're not really interested in the next one, we actually talked about in the first session this morning when we looked at the ocp, the openshift container platform roadmap- and this is that core os layering.

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So if you're not familiar with core os, it is the technology that's built for hosting container platforms. It's a lightweight operating system. It works very different from a traditional linux distribution um in that when it boots up it boots from a standard image, and then it goes and overwrites itself with the image.

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That's in this os tree using something like the ignition file and if you want to go and customize our image it's difficult today, when okd's built, we can't use the fedora core os standard image. We have to customize it a little bit for okd and that's not an easy process.

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So what the layering is? It's a new feature, it's already in fedora, and you can actually go play with it here again. The qr code takes you to that git repo, and this is a way of using docker files or container files, and you can actually use a core os image as you're from and then here we're just replacing a package with an updated package, and then that will go and create me a new version of coreos. I can then use as my base again today.

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If you want to customize that image, you typically have to use um a machine, config and custom resource to go and create that, and then that patch is overlaid after your kubernetes system, your okd system is running, so this is going to give you the ability to customize that base image put any new packages you want on any customization any configs. You want on and create the image.

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So if you want to play with it, there are some examples here, it's available today within the fedora and obviously we're going to change the okd, build to use this technology and that's what the work's been doing now and eventually, then that will come into ocp.

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And this last section is really about empowering the community at the minute. Has anybody tried to build openshift or okd from source.

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um First of all, you have to navigate the 600 plus repos in the openshift organization, and then you have to try and work out how the red hat prow build system works and it's not an easy process. So, within the community, we've been trying to find ways of making this easier of simplifying this and giving the community outside of red hat firewall the ability to build their own releases much more easily. So it's a process that we're going through and one of the options is this operate first cloud.

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So this is a community cloud run by the ci office in red hat and we're looking at the option of setting up a build system, an okd build system there. So the community can then start doing, builds and start releasing things hard off the press.

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There was another conversation at the working group last night, where um the product manager for a new build system that red hat is looking to build a managed system, initially they're, looking at maybe using okd as in early access to actually put an okd build within that new build system that eventually will be rolled out throughout red hat.

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So what we're looking to do is provide the community a way to actually build openshift and as an extension, to that we're going to launch a project where we get the community to build a set of operators and then operate a catalog for okd, which contains some of the missing pieces. So if you use okd you'll be aware that a lot of the magic like pipelines like git ops, are not available in the ukdp catalogue. So we want to use the ability that we're going to get with with these initiatives to create a community.

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Catalog to add the missing pieces in we've asked red hat to do this. But then just they've got so many resource constraints that they're just not able to help us that quickly. So we're trying to empower the community to actually do this.

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So if you like the talks this morning on operators- and you want to get your hands dirty, we are going to be looking for volunteers to come and help us join this effort um to actually create a set of operators and a catalog for okd.

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And some of the other things that are coming out are um we heard again this morning? Multi-Architecture um the advantage on the new build system is that's going to be multi-architecture enabled and there is some work going on to actually do arm builds and other builds for okd and again we want to roll those out and there's also quite a lot of work going on within red hat again we heard it in the ocp road map. Again it's happening in okd land as well on doing smaller deployments closer to the edge.

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So that's what's going on and we're not going to talk about how this actually on manifests and how how we actually make this all happen.

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So okd is actually managed by a working group and we've got quite a good mix of industry, academic, home lab users and red hatters, and we meet every second tuesday. So the last meeting was last night and it's a conference call a video conference call that happens at 5 pm gmt.

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So in summer it goes to 6 p.m, uk time and in winter it's at 5 p.m.

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Don't know why we don't actually stick to a time, but we move as the seasons move um and it's that group that actually manages okd and the community um look after the website, the okada.io, the docs, which is a copy of the openshift documentation modified for okd, and then we've got a github now at the minute that github is actually within the open shift organization and again that causes us a few worries or a few concerns, because getting community members that are not red, hutters access to that to be able to manage commits on that is a little bit difficult, because that is the organization looking after the red hat product, so red hat or are not too keen on letting other people into that which is very understandable.

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So we're about to move to a project, okd, git repo. So again as we're going to stop building we've created our own git repo and we've created our own project in key to io.

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So again we want to enable and empower the community to actually do things on our own we've launched a twitter account and that's when we're going to be announcing the trials. So if you want to get into that s-cos version, if you want to look and play with the layering when it gets available and if you want to help us with the operator work we're going to announce everything through that twitter, you can find me on the kubernetes slack and, if you're a fedora community member, we're also on matrix so happy.

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If you want to reach out and we've got the calendar here and all these details are available on okd.io. So if you just have that one url go to the working group, section and you'll find everything there, but that calendar is how you get into the working group, and I just want to say it can be a little bit daunting when you join a community for the first time. You turn up, you don't know what they're talking about. You just feel a little bit sort of adrift and you're, not quite sure.

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What's going on you're most welcome to come and join our calls. If you want to be a lurker for the first couple of times, just join, listen! What's going on, I'm usually on there find me this chat system. Send me a message. I'm quite happy telling you what's going on, interrupt us and remind us that there's newbies on the call, because we we're all in there every week and we we just launch in and talk about the topics if you're, new and you're feeling a bit.

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I don't know what you're talking about just just either put something in the chat or just speak up and say: can you actually give us a bit of context here? We are a friendly bunch. So if you want to join us you're more than welcome to come in our minutes are on okidi.io and on openshifttv.

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You will see all of our meetings. We actually record them and put them up there and, along as with the main group, there are other communities and subgroups that we work with.

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So we work very very closely with fedora and the fedora coreos. They report every one of our main working group meetings, because obviously what they do influences okd as the underlying platform. They tell us when new features are coming and work out how we integrate them. We have a document sub working group and that really is about managing interaction with the community. So we've just done some work to rebase the okd website.

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To make it easier, you had to be a front-end web developer to contribute, which we didn't think was a good model, so we've now changed it to a just, a markdown based system. So it's very easy to contribute and again anybody that wants to get involved and help us with that. We've just started a section on the technical work, so how you develop your okd.

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So if you're looking at the mysteries of what's in the release, and how do I go from a release to where it came from what git repo we're putting that information as we build these other communities and abilities to actually create our content, we'll put it up there?

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We have a community, we heard about the virtualization, and so we do have a community, a sub working group looking to create that capability within okd as well, and then obviously we're talking to the operator. First cloud.

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And that's it. Thank you so again, look at the twitter account if any of that interests you in terms of getting access to that um I'm around for the rest of the day. I think I'm going to be around for the ask me anything at the end of the session, so we can take questions then. Thank you.