Lokomotive post ms acquisition

[bashfulrobot]

Hi there,

This may be way too early to answer, but I'm just curious whether this project's going to continue on since you have been acquired by Microsoft.

Thanks for your time!

[worldofgeese]

@blixtra I (and others using Lokomotive) would really appreciate some clarity on this!

[ghostheory]

Its seems like it will die the slow death gents. I have being trying to get this to work on a baremetal using their tinkerbell/libvirt guide, but their req's are all super behind current versions (terraform .13 and libvirt v 0.6.2) which was a lily pain, and then there was a lot of cruft going on during the actual lokoctl runs.

On top of all that, these issue pages seem pretty dead. Not a lot of responses from the team. My assumption here is that now MS picked them up they will probably be working on an Azure specific Talos/Bottlerocket OS competitor for them.

Too bad.

[bashfulrobot]

I suspect this (their own Linux distro).

[ahrkrak]

The project will continue to exist and we will make some updates on a "best efforts" basis. However, it is not a commercial endeavor for Microsoft, so resources will be limited and efforts sporadic. Hence you should not rely on the Kinvolk/Microsoft team to provide mission-critical support -- but if there is interest from the community in helping maintain Lokomotive and take it forward, we'd love to work with folks.