[atlas] Future of Software Anchors

> On May 28, 2022, at 10:27 AM, Lukas Magauer via ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody!
>  
> I have been running a Software probe on CentOS 8 since mid 2020. (and since switched it to Rocky Linux 8)
> It’s unsupported, but also didn’t really make any problems, just worked fine with the yum repo distributed package!
>  
> Great that there are already plans to support newer versions as well!
>  
> And has there something changed in the distribution of the package?
> Because the latest changes of version 5070 don’t look like they appeared in the GitHub repo?
>  
> Best regards,
> Lukas

I just made a new anchor the other day, and CentOS 7 is still the requirement, I also rebuilt one of the original VM anchors as well - it had a different partition scheme and I wasn’t asked to fix it, but apparently it was causing an issue on the back-end.

I’m expecting they will do an OS upgrade, but also CentOS doesn’t really like providing upgrade paths, so I suspect the job will be to just re-image the VM with a newer CentOS ISO and kickstart file at some point, or they will find a repeatable series of dnf commands that will step the VM from 7 -> SomethingNewer

- Jared