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Edge Image Builder (suse.com)
20 points by meysamazad on Sept 13, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


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.


Odd; the page explicitly claims that's supported:

> 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.


This is new in the enterprise image builder, not part of MicroOS itself.


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.


that's an annoying website. close




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