Is the requirement section accurate?
lucacome opened this issue · 4 comments
Requirements
For running the Preflight binary, the host or VM must have at least RHEL 8.5, CentOS 8.5 or Fedora 35 installed.
The Preflight binary currently requires that you have the following tools installed,
functional, and in your path.
| Name | Tool cli | Minimum version |
|---|---|---|
| OperatorSDK | operator-sdk |
v1.28.0 |
The requirement section that states that RHEL, CentOS or Fedora are required to run the binary and that the operator-sdk needs to be installed.
It doesn't seem accurate to me as I've been able to run the binary on Ubuntu or macOS without problems, also without the operator-sdk installed.
I just wanted to figure out if I'm doing something wrong or if the section can be deleted.
@lucacome operator-sdk is required for check operator where we call operator-sdk scorecard against the operator bundle image. I think you are using the preflight binary to run check container, then using our hosted pipeline to certify/validate the operator bundle and aren't doing any iterative executions of preflight against the operator and a cluster. Please correct my last point if I'm mistaken and you are also running preflight check operator
Thanks @acornett21 you're correct, we're only using check container. So both requirements are only for check operator?
@lucacome I missed the part of the question for the host system os, in reality the host system can be any OS that can run a binary we distribute. The dependency section, was alot longer when preflightwas first written, but now we can rely on libraries instead of the host system having x,y,z dependency installed for our checks/policies. So, we wanted the host OS to be known to come with those dependencies, but now that we really only have the one and it's for check operator this documentation can be cleaned up.
@lucacome I think this issue was addressed in the comment above, so I am going to close this issue. Feel free to re-open if you feel this was not resolved.