uCore Minimal on Oracle free tier?

[zilexa]

I was wondering if anyone has experience installing uCore Minimal on an Oracle free tier instance? I have no experience with either, but I’ve been selfhosting/building and running a homeserver for years and decided to quit.

I’m considering uCore on Oracle free tier, for a Headscale/Tailscale exit node with Adguard Home as DNS server. Clients that connect to it (phone, laptop, family devices) can enjoy the DNS filtering and also the VPN network via Tailscale apps.

UCore seems ideal after reading the documentation. Plus it comes with Cockpit so I can easily manage the docker (via Podman-compose if I can get it to work) containers for Headscale and Adguard Home.

Just wondering if someone has experience, as I can’t find a guide for uCore on Oracle free tier.

[JohnAtl]

uCore is being retired.

uCore: Retirement

For some time I’ve been feeling that running servers (even home servers) on Fedora simply results in too much churn for what I personally want. I wanted to build uCore on top of Fedora CoreOS because I love the container-native model and loved what we were already doing on the desktop in Universal Blue based on Fedora’s Atomic Desktops. Several months ago, I started looking at options to build a CentOS based CoreOS (I called my CCOS, but upstream has an SCOS), but I’ve been discouraged because…

[bsherman]

What you’d be looking for is a guide for CoreOS, as uCore is CoreOS with additions.

As @JohnAtl mentioned, however, uCore is retiring… so probably not an ideal time to install from scratch, though you if you only want tailscale you could also manage a custom build of CoreOS.

Also, there will be a replacement Universal Blue server project with the same goals as uCore, only bootc based rather than CoreOS.

[zilexa]

I might just wait for that
Or try to setup CoreOS on Oracle free to practice, see what I run into and what choices to make when setting up Cockpit and Podman-compose with Headscale and Adguard Home.