Nebraska

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Note: To file an issue for Nebraska, go-omaha, or nebraska-update-agent, please use the Nebraska issue tracker.

Nebraska

Nebraska is an update manager for Flatcar Container Linux.

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Overview

Nebraska offers an easy way to monitor and manage the rollout of updates to applications that use the Omaha protocol, with special functionality for Flatcar Container Linux updates. To learn more about the Omaha protocol, please refer to the upstream docs here

Features

  • Monitor and control application updates;
  • Optimized for serving updates to Flatcar Container Linux;
  • Automatically fetch new Flatcar Container Linux updates;
  • Store and serve Flatcar Container Linux payloads (optional);
  • Compatible with any applications that use the Omaha protocol;
  • Define groups, channels, and packages;
  • Control what updates are rolled out for which instance groups, as well as when and how they are updates;
  • Pause/resume updates at any time;
  • Statistics about the versions installed for instances, status history, and updates progress, etc.;
  • Activity timeline to quickly see important events or errors;

Published Container Images

UPDATE: New container images are now only published under ghcr.io/flatcar/nebraska.

Screenshots

Main ScreenshotFlatcar App Screenshot
Group Details ScreenshotInstance Details Screenshot

Issues

Please report any issues in here.

Code of Conduct

We follow the CNCF Code of Conduct.

Please contact private Maintainer mailing list or the Cloud Native Foundation mediator, conduct@cncf.io, to report an issue.

Contributing

If you want to start contributing to Nebraska, please check out the contributing documentation.

Development

For a quickstart on setting up a development environment, please check the development documentation.

User Access

For instructions on how to set up user access, please check the authorization documentation.

License

Nebraska is released under the terms of the Apache 2.0, and was forked from the CoreRoller project.


Community & Project Documentation

  • Contributing Guidelines — How to contribute, find issues, and submit pull requests
  • Code of Conduct — Standards for respectful and inclusive community participation
  • Security Policy — How to report vulnerabilities and security-related information
  • Maintainers — Current project maintainers and their responsibilities
  • Governance — Project governance model, decision-making process, and roles