update the "by Kinvolk" in the OS release and motd
vbatts opened this issue · comments
Description
When ssh'ing to a flatcar instance it still says "by Kinvolk" in the motd
Impact
not a big deal, but Kinvolk was acquired 3yrs ago and Flatcar is an independent community.
Environment and steps to reproduce
- Set-up: spin up a Flatcar machine
- Task: ssh to it to see the MOTD (
/etc/motd). Also look in thePRETTY_NAME=of/etc/os-release
Expected behavior
maybe "Flatcar Container Linux (https://github.com/flatcar)" ?
Having a Github URL in the MOTD can be a burden to maintain? (e.g we changed two or three times the Github organization name kinvolk -> flatcar-linux -> flatcar).
What about "Flatcar Container Linux (https://flatcar.org/docs)"
IMO, shortening the distro name would be good. I know various tools like Ansible use the names to guess the environment. Maybe that requires coordination?
There was a bug 2 years back which changed how ansible reports this (ansible/ansible#77537), so I think ansible users will have needed to learn how to handle both (image-builder does).
But if the CNCF submission goes through, that might be a good moment to drop "by Kinvolk".