Sounds promising! I was literally just evaluating OpenSuse MicroOS for upgrading an embedded sensor. The whole buildroot/yocyo thing gets tiresome. Anyone else tried this yet?
However, it had the same pitfalls of Canonicals Ubuntu Core / snap stuff. They all seem to require booting the device with full internet to run the setup. Then updating the local OS without internet seemed infeasible.
> The resulting image contains all of the configuration and binary artifacts (RPMs, container images, etc.) necessary to provision the node at first boot, providing true zero-touch provisioning even in the case of low-bandwidth connections and air-gapped scenarios.
I fear this will cause the same problems I've predicted with Red Hats "Image builder": monotonically increasing storage consumption driven by teams not knowing "what's safe to delete" just like "shared drives" for the past 20 years.
However, it had the same pitfalls of Canonicals Ubuntu Core / snap stuff. They all seem to require booting the device with full internet to run the setup. Then updating the local OS without internet seemed infeasible.