OS

Goals

• Self-updating
• Supports Docker, Tailscale, etc for contained workflows
• Reliable, easy to rollback and recover
• Secure, robust options for hardening

Candidates

Fedora Server

• Traditional desktop
• Very familiar, unlikely to get in the way
• Can update most things while the server remains online
  • Could be less stable

Fedora CoreOS

• Immutable, similar to Silverblue
• Must be defined in a config file — Ignition
  • Could be a pain, could be nice to use to deploy servers like an off-site backup
  • This could allow us to very simply deploy

OpenSUSE MicroOS

• Immutable, uses BTRFS snapshots for rollbacks
  • This includes the whole root drive, including configs
  • Could be more useful for rolling back major breaking changes
• Does not necessarily need a config file, but can be deployed with one
• This is likely a much more approachable option for immutability