coreos / coreos/ignition

Allow Ignition to run shell commands

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Dominant language
Go
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Feature Request

I want Ignition to overlay packages with rpm-ostree install to install cockpit in addition to my containers that are setup by systemd units.

Because of Ignition's goal to be distro agnostic, a feature to directly allow overlay packages in the config will not be accepted. How about an option to run any shell commands be added instead? That would allow any modifications to be done automatically, without running a separate shell script on first boot.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by determining where Ignition parses configuration and performs first-boot actions; done requires a decided, distro-agnostic way to run shell commands without a separate first-boot script.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go, shell
Domain
devops, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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