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kinvolk / lokomotive

🪦 DISCONTINUED Further Lokomotive development has been discontinued. Lokomotive is a 100% open-source, easy to use and secure Kubernetes distribution from the volks at Kinvolk
https://kinvolk.io/lokomotive-kubernetes/
Apache License 2.0
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Lokomotive post ms acquisition #1463

Open bashfulrobot opened 3 years ago

bashfulrobot commented 3 years ago

Hi there,

This may be way too early to answer, but I'm just curious whether this project's going to continue on since you have been acquired by Microsoft.

Thanks for your time!

worldofgeese commented 3 years ago

@blixtra I (and others using Lokomotive) would really appreciate some clarity on this!

ghostheory commented 3 years ago

Its seems like it will die the slow death gents. I have being trying to get this to work on a baremetal using their tinkerbell/libvirt guide, but their req's are all super behind current versions (terraform .13 and libvirt v 0.6.2) which was a lily pain, and then there was a lot of cruft going on during the actual lokoctl runs.

On top of all that, these issue pages seem pretty dead. Not a lot of responses from the team. My assumption here is that now MS picked them up they will probably be working on an Azure specific Talos/Bottlerocket OS competitor for them.

Too bad.

bashfulrobot commented 3 years ago

I suspect this (their own Linux distro).

ahrkrak commented 3 years ago

The project will continue to exist and we will make some updates on a "best efforts" basis. However, it is not a commercial endeavor for Microsoft, so resources will be limited and efforts sporadic. Hence you should not rely on the Kinvolk/Microsoft team to provide mission-critical support -- but if there is interest from the community in helping maintain Lokomotive and take it forward, we'd love to work with folks.