Feature Goal

• To provide a simple and safe mechanism to manage RPM packages with MachineConfigPools.

Why is this important?

• Customers have demonstrable requirements to run software on their worker nodes that is not shipped in the RHEL CoreOS image. 
• While the Enterprise Linux ecosystem is increasingly embracing containerization, there is a long way to go in some areas.
• We must give customers the ability to adapt OpenShift to their environment and its requirements.
• However we can improve RPM hotfix delivery turnaround is a win for customers.

Scenarios

1. Install/remove hotfix from Red Hat engineering – MCO-122
2. Install/remove 3rd party RPM & yum repo – MCO-124
3. Install/remove RHEL content. – MCO-123
   • Standard RHEL packages.
   • RHEL Driver Update Program packages.
4. Unpackaged content including configuration files

Acceptance Criteria

• CI - MUST be running successfully with tests automated
• Release Technical Enablement - Provide necessary release enablement details and documents.
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