[RFE] Scaleway support #1368
Description
Current situation
There is no Flatcar images for Scaleway.
Impact
Folks can't simply use Flatcar on Scaleway.
Ideal future situation
Folks can deploy Flatcar on Scaleway.
Implementation options
- Mantle support: platform: add scaleway platform mantle#501
- Ignition support: providers: add scaleway coreos/ignition#1794
- Upgrade Ignition to 2.18.0: sys-apps/ignition: bump to v2.18.0 scripts#1728
- OEM support on Flatcar: oem: provide scaleway images scripts#1683, https://github.com/flatcar/jenkins-os/pull/330
- Test automation on Flatcar: //TODO
- Documentation: community-platforms: add scaleway flatcar-website#326
- Terraform example: scaleway: initial commit flatcar-terraform#20
Additional information
Current workaround to use Flatcar on Scaleway:
- Start an Ubuntu image with attached disk of 25GB
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flatcar/init/flatcar-master/bin/flatcar-install
apt install bzip2
bash ./flatcar-install -d /dev/sdb -i ./config.json
lsblk -f
...
sdb
├─sdb1 vfat FAT32 EFI-SYSTEM F210-83DF
├─sdb2
├─sdb3 ext4 1.0 5367c56e-0d10-4ac7-945b-5ff1d67614d8
├─sdb4
├─sdb6 btrfs OEM c793802a-e7bd-4b51-a62b-a50074669e96
├─sdb7
└─sdb9 ext4 1.0 ROOT 7e861648-1aa4-4887-a59e-04b3c65109c6
- Create a snapshot of the 25GB volume
- Start an instance with the volume
core@scw-priceless-galileo-flatcar ~ $ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Flatcar Container Linux by Kinvolk"
ID=flatcar
ID_LIKE=coreos
VERSION=3760.2.0
VERSION_ID=3760.2.0
BUILD_ID=2024-01-16-1847
SYSEXT_LEVEL=1.0
PRETTY_NAME="Flatcar Container Linux by Kinvolk 3760.2.0 (Oklo)"
ANSI_COLOR="38;5;75"
HOME_URL="https://flatcar.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://issues.flatcar.org"
FLATCAR_BOARD="amd64-usr"
CPE_NAME="cpe:2.3:o:flatcar-linux:flatcar_linux:3760.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"