Is go a run-time requirement for using orbit, or is it just a build-time requirement?

Just a buildtime requirement

Ok, thanks

is Orbit now considered production-ready? Now that it's rolled into the fleetdm repo, I'm unclear on the status of this portion of the project

It seems to work as advertised so far

I don't think it is production-ready yet. At least I haven't seen it announced, and I think there are still some issues with dir permissions while building thats causing it to fail for some people. But this is pure speculation and will need one of the fleet guys to answer

It would seem that there’s a problem with the rpm on Fedora 34 - and sadly no logs, just this:

Nov 04 13:16:53 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:54 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:54 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:55 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:55 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:57 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:57 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:58 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:58 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:59 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:16:59 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:00 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:00 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:02 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:02 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:03 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:03 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:04 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Stopped Orbit osquery.
Nov 04 13:17:04 LIN5W2V3Z2.trioptima.local systemd[1]: Started Orbit osquery.