Abandoned?

[the-maldridge]

I couldn't find a better place to ask, so I'll ask here. Is this project still maintained? I'm looking to build something basically identical, and got fairly far in before I realized I was basically building exactly what you have already done here. There are a handful of things I'd like to change/improve and one or two features I have in my code that aren't here, such as a metadata data source.

I can fork this repo if that's the best approach, but I figured I'd ask first what the plan is.

[ThatsMrTalbot]

Hiya,

This project was created as POC a while ago, I don't see us doing any more work on it in the near future. I think forking it would be the best thing to do. I'll look at putting a notice in the README about this also.

[the-maldridge]

Thanks for the response. Besides the potentially unwieldy nature of building a complete OS image with terraform, are there any other pearls of wisdom you can share of lessons learned?

[ThatsMrTalbot]

From what I remember the most annoying this was some of the linuxkit libraries requiring the linuxkit binary to be present to work. I don't know if this is still the case. Also unnecessary rebuilds, due to it writing a local file, if the file is missing on subsequent runs (as it might well be in a CI environment) it will rebuild the image.

[the-maldridge]

Ah, so largely the pain of using linuxkit as a library, and then the general unwieldy nature of using terraform in this way. Those were the two things I was aware of as being a problem, and I think that linuxkit no longer shells out to itself. At least it won't by the time I'm done patching it for my use case.

[ThatsMrTalbot]

Im excited to see the results 😄