G8OS is a stateless and lightweight Linux operating system designed for clustered deployments to host virtual machines and containerized applications.

For more details see the Introduction to G8OS in the /docs documentation directory, which includes a comprehensive table of contents.

Main repositories

• Initramfs Builder:
  • Assembly of shell scripts for building the G8OS Linux kernel and create an initramfs to start Core0.
• Core0:
  • Init process (Core0) and container manager (CoreX) of G8OS
  • Also contains Python client for Core0, for managing containers, disks and networking of a G8OS node
• G8ufs:
  • Virtual file system for G8OS and G8OS containers
• G8OS Block Storage:
  • NBD based distributed block storage server
• G8OS Resource Pool:
  • G8OS resource pool API server and AYS templates
  • Also contains RAML definition and Python stubs to interact with the RESTfull resource pool API
• G8OS Hub:
  • Repository for flists and vdisk templates
  • Publicly hosted on https://hub.gig.tech

Release schedule

• Dec 7, 2016: v0.9.0
  • First usable beta version of the G8OS
• May 12, 2017: v1.1.0-alpha-2 :
  • Introduces
    • Hub
    • Resource Pool
    • NBD Block Storage server
  • Kanban
• May 26, 2017: v1.1.0-alpha-3
  • Introduces
    • G8OS Gateway
    • Redundant vdisks
    • Upgrade of service to JumpScale 9
  • Kanban
• June 9, 2017: v1.1.0-alpha-4
  • Introduces:
    • Basic integration with OpenvCloud
    • vdisk rollback
    • Automatic handling of storage failures and all components authenticated over ItsYou.online
  • Kanban

Telegram

• https://telegram.me/joinchat/BrOCOUGHeT035il_qrwQ2A