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KIWI - next generation
This is a rewrite of the current kiwi appliance builder which you can find here: https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi.
Contents
Status
Development - no release yet
This project is in an early development phase and some parts the old kiwi version can do are not yet available in the new code base. If you are missing a feature at the time of the first release don't hesitate to open an issue such that I can collect them. Of course external contributions are very much appreciated.
Motivation
During the last years kiwi has evolved a lot, many features were added, even some which are not in use anymore because new technologies made them obsolete. There is a lot of legacy code in kiwi to support older distributions too. I'd like to get rid of all of these and come back to a clean appliance building system.
However the current design and the lack of tests in core parts of the code prevents us from major refactoring as I see them required. Because of that a rewrite of kiwi with a stable version in the background seems to be the best way.
Users will be able to use both versions in parallel. Also the new kiwi will be 100% compatible with the current format of the image description, which means you can build an image from the same image description with the old and the new kiwi if the new kiwi supports the distribution and all features the image description has configured
Supported Distributions
This version of kiwi is targeted to build appliances for distributions which are equal or newer compared to the following list:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
- Red Hat Enterprise 7
- Fedora 22
- openSUSE 13.2
- SUSE Leap 42
- SUSE Tumbleweed
For anything older please consider to use the old version
Development
The appliance builder part is developed in python and follows the test driven development rules. The XML, schema and stylesheets are taken from the old version of kiwi. Also the entire boot code written in bash is taken over from the old kiwi codebase.