matchbox/CHANGES.md

coreos-baremetal bootcfg

Latest

• Add initial gRPC client and server packages
• Add initial Grub net boot support and an example
• Add initial command line client tool
• Add detached OpenPGP signature endpoints (.sig)

Changes

• Profiles
  • Move Profiles to JSON files under /var/lib/bootcfg/profiles
  • Rename Spec to Profile
• Groups
  • Move Groups to JSON files under /var/lib/bootcfg/groups
  • Require Group metadata to be valid JSON
  • Rename groups field spec to profile
• Stop parsing Groups from the -config YAML file. Remove the flag.
• Change default -data-path to /var/lib/bootcfg
• Change default -assets-path to /var/lib/bootcfg/assets
• Change the default assets download location to examples/assets
• Remove HTTP /spec/id JSON endpoint

New Examples

• Examples which PXE boot with or without a root partition
• Example Kubernetes cluster installed to disk
• Example etcd cluster installed to disk
• Setup fleet in multi-node example clusters
• Convert all Cloud-Configs to Ignition

v0.2.0 (2016-02-09)

Features

• Render Ignition config and cloud-configs as Go templates
• Allow writing Ignition configs as YAML configs. Render as JSON for machines.
• Add ASCII armored detached OpenPGP signature endpoints (.asc)
  • Enable signing by providing a -key-ring-path with a signing key and setting BOOTCFG_PASSPHRASE if needed
• Add metadata endpoint which matches machines to custom metadata
• Add metadata to group definitions in config.yaml

Changes

• Require the -config flag if the default file path doesn't exist
• Normalize user-defined MAC address tags
• Rename flag -images-path to -assets-path
• Rename endpoint /images to /assets

New Examples

• Example TLS-authenticated Kubernetes cluster with rkt and CNI
• Example TLS-authenticated Kubernetes cluster with Docker
• Example custom metadata agent with Ignition, fetches metadata on boot and writes it to /run/metadata/bootcfg
• Example CoreOS install to disk with Ignition
• Update etcd cluster examples to use Ignition, rather than cloud-config.

v0.1.0 (2016-01-08)

Initial release of the coreos-baremetal Config Service.

Features

• Match machines based on hardware attributes or free-form tag matchers
• Render boot configs (kernel, initrd), Ignition configs, and Cloud-Init configs
• Support for PXE, iPXE, and Pixiecore network boot environments