Marcus Noble
Marcus Noble
/remove-lifecycle stale
Yeah. Quite disappointing. 😞 I'm talking with the other maintainers to decide how we proceed. Once we have something we'll update.
Yes, we are [packaging it and distribute it in the container image](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder/blob/49d9e2ad21aeed2dec32033bebb19480776506a1/images/capi/Dockerfile#L57) that we build and provider for others to use. As far as I understand this counts. Myself and...
Not including Packer in the container image would mean the container isn't actually usable as Packer is required for image-builder to function. We're considering this but it would impact our...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding @BenTheElder but it sounds like you're suggesting that we should stop our reliance on Packer completely, is that correct?
> If there aren't sufficient resources for a fork (or switching tools), you could request an exception We already tried that and it was rejected. 😔 See https://github.com/cncf/foundation/issues/625#issuecomment-2127628513
/assign @drew-viles
@mboersma Sorry, I had to rebase due to conflicts.
@mboersma @drew-viles What do y'all think about this currently requiring the use of the Alpha Flatcar builds? I'm kinda inclined to not include this in image-builder until it's available in...
I'm more concerned about it _defaulting_ to Alpha channel. If user chose to use non-stable channels that's fine but I think the out-of-the-box settings should encourage stability. (Especially true as...