From Flatcar Development to ProxmoxVE Deployment — An Example of Open and Sustainable Collaboration
summary
Flatcar, a Linux OS for running containers and Kubernetes, gained Proxmox VE support through contributions from Enix. The talk explains the technical work and lessons learned that enabled Flatcar to boot and provision on Proxmox VE (including Ignition in the initramfs), handle updates, and deploy at scale, and shows how this open collaboration also helped Fedora CoreOS and MicroOS gain Proxmox support.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11Flatcar and Proxmox VE
- 3:17Demo setup
- 4:20Cloud Image and Ignition
- 8:55Flatcar origins
- 10:41Immutable OS
- 13:30Open source ecosystem
- 17:40Contributing to Flatcar
- 23:43Ignition demo
- 26:35Adoption at NX
- 28:59Contribution timeline
- 31:01Ignition config
- 34:13Boot troubleshooting
- 36:18Ignition vs Cloud Config
- 37:43Contributors
- 39:27Conclusion
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