CoreOS "Ignition" released

CoreOS has announced therelease of its "Ignition" provisioning tool. "At the the most basiclevel, Ignition is a tool for manipulating disks during early boot. Thisincludes partitioning disks, formatting partitions, writing files, andconfiguring users." It runs as the first process - before systemd -to get the system into the proper shape before the ordinary boot processtakes over.