Distributor Notes
Dracut Module
The distribution specific integration is responsible for ensuring that the ignition dracut module is included in the initramfs when necessary. This can be achieved by adding it as dependency of the dracut module containing the distribution integration, or by installing a dracut configuration file.
Kernel Arguments
When Ignition is updating kernel arguments it will call out to a binary (defined in internal/distro/distro.go and overridable at build-time via overriding the github.com/coreos/ignition/v2/internal/distro.kargsCmd build flag). Ignition expects that the binary accepts --should-exist & --should-not-exist parameters. Should exist operations should append the argument if missing and should not exist should NOT fail if the argument is not present. The binary should also reboot the system if necessary.
As an example of the binary implementation look at examples/ignition-kargs-helper.
If your implementation of Ignition doesn’t intend to ship kargs functionality the ignition-kargs.service unit should be disabled.