📢 Kairos release v2.4.0

[mudler]

🗺 What's left for release

🏗️ Factory ( #116 ). MVP completion

• 🌱 Split elemental-cli into a lifecycle manager for the system (install/upgrade) and a building component #711
• 🌱 Registry authentication for installations and upgrades #1042
• 🏗️ pull/push from private repo - use kubernetes and imagePull secret to pull #513
• ⚠️ Build provider-kairos in this repository #1609

🎨 UX ( #773 )

• ✨ Custom partitioning #558

📖 Media/Blog posts ( #774 )

🤖 CAPI ( #120 )

🔒 CoCo/Security (#347)

• Create a test that boots UKI artifacts #1201

ARM:

• 🌱 Multi-arch image support #1061

🌱 Generic

• 🌱 Sync the names of the artifacts #1109
• 🤖 QA/tests: elemental upgrade process #1286

🐛 Bugfixing

• kairos reset fails on Jetson Orin device #1723

🔦 Highlights

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✅ Release Checklist

• Stage 0 - Finishing Touches
  • Check kairos/packages, and for any needed update
  • Make sure CI tests are passing.
  • Consider cutting an rc, alpha, ... based on changes on the CI
• Stage 1 - Manual testing
  • How: Using the assets from master, make sure that test scenarios not covered by automatic tests are passing, and that docs are still aligned
    • Fedora flavor install, and manual upgrade works
    • ARM images (openSUSE, alpine) boots and manual upgrade works
• Stage 3 - Release
  • Tag the release on master.
• Stage 4 - Update provider-kairos
  • Update go mod to consume kairos-io/kairos.
  • Check if any changes on the pipelines and building pieces are required
    • Flavor changes
    • osbuilder version bumps
  • Update the CORE_VERSION file of kairos-io/provider to match the release tag of kairos-io/kairos
  • Tag the release on provider-kairos
• Stage 5 - Announcement
  • Update docs with new naming convention
  • Blog post announcement

[Itxaka]

I would add #1271 to this release, seeing that immucore lvm support is in

Ignore this, is already in 2.1.0 😂

[mauromorales]

Added a task on Stage 5 to update any links of artifacts with the new naming convention in kairos-io/kairos-docs#55

[mudler]

2.4.0 is blocked due to #1797

[Itxaka]

kairos-core-ubuntu-20-lts-amd64-generic-v2.4.0-rc1

• Interactive install: OK (interactive installer still takes 1m30s to shut down when asked to reboot the machine)

  • Boot from active: OK
  • Boot from passive: OK
  • Boot from recovery: OK (still shows cos-recovery as the hostname)
  • Auto Reset: OK (grub fails to find the squashfs, requires hitting enter to continue booting. Does not auto-reboot as kairos-reset service does not have the reboot flag)
  • After reset:
    • Boot from active: OK
    • Boot from passive: OK
    • Boot from recovery: OK (still shows cos-recovery as the hostname)

• Manual install: OK

  • Boot from active: OK
  • Boot from passive: OK
  • Boot from recovery: OK (still shows cos-recovery as the hostname)
  • Auto Reset: OK (grub fails to find the squashfs, requires hitting enter to continue booting. Does not auto-reboot as kairos-reset service does not have the reboot flag)
  • After reset:
    • Boot from active: OK
    • Boot from passive: OK
    • Boot from recovery: OK (still shows cos-recovery as the hostname)

Upgrade:

• From active: OK
• From passive (NEW FEATURE): OK (only updates active.img, ignores passive)
• From recovery: OK

Upgrade recovery:

• From active: OK
• From passive: OK

Upgrade source:

• From github releases: OK
• From oci: OK

[Itxaka]

kairos-core-ubuntu-arm64-rpi4-v2.4.0-rc1.img.xz

• Boot active: OK (no serial output)
• Boot passive: OK (no serial output)
• Boot recovery: OK (no serial output)
• Expand last partition: FAIL (growpart not available in the image, workaround: call resize2fs /dev/disk/by/label/COS_PERSISTENT) -> 🐛 Add growpart to base images #1806
• Upgrade from active: OK
• Upgrade from passive: OK
• Upgrade from recovery: OK

Know pre-existent rpi issues to check:

• 🐛 Autoreset issues on RPi #1767
• 🐛 RPi4 ubuntu 20 lts missing eth0 interface #1769 -> Still happening

[Itxaka]

kairos-core-ubuntu-arm64-rpi4-v2.4.0-rc3.img.xz

Fixed between rc2 and rc3:

 - https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos/pull/1806
 - https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos/pull/1810
 - Latest yip on immmucore
 - Latest yip on kairos-agent

• Boot active: OK

• Boot passive: OK

• Boot recovery: OK

• Upgrade from active: OK

• Upgrade from passive: OK

• Upgrade from recovery: OK

• Upgrade recovery: OK

• Expand last partition: FAIL

Know pre-existent rpi issues to check:

• 🐛 Autoreset issues on RPi #1767 -> Partially fixed, autoreset works, grub chars are ugly.
• 🐛 RPi4 ubuntu 20 lts missing eth0 interface #1769 -> Still happening

[Itxaka]

-> Expand last partition: FAIL

growpart is not available in the initramfs.....