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Boot and upgrade via container images
15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2023-03-23 · latest 2026-03-03
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…"Demonstrate a debian or arch base image" bootc-dev/bootc#865 https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865 Is packer necessary with bootc? To require signatures for containers and also for native containers with bootc:
comment by westurner · 2026-03-03 · in BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything -
It is not, the future is currently pointing to composefs: https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/1190 There's a GitHub org that builds bootc-ready images for non-Red Hat family distributions using this backend.…
comment by mroche · 2026-02-28 · in Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment -
If you're thinking about actually using it, please not it only supports redhat distros. https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865
comment by traverseda · 2026-02-17 · in Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices -
…base especially seems interesting in theory. There has recently been some progress on that front: https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865 https://github.com/bootcrew/debian-bootc
comment by upboundspiral · 2025-09-19 · in Bluefin LTS Is Released -
…It doesn't use plain containers for app isolation. We ship the OS itself as a bootable container ( https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc ). That doesn't mean we use or recommend using containers for application isolation. Container support is…
comment by secureblue · 2025-08-27 · in Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published -
…bring it up during the next bootc meeting[1], which are public btw! Thanks for using bazzite! 1: https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc?tab=readme-ov-file#commun...
comment by jcastro · 2025-07-21 · in Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS -
I just noticed one update to https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865 It looks as though, fnzr has been able to get past the 'dnf' requirements (I dont know arch, but I assume pacman is an rpm/dnf equivalent).
comment by worthless-trash · 2025-04-07 · in Learning about Bootc -
…around https://github.com/frap129/arch-bootc and see if that works without any terrible hacks (like https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865#issuecomment-2... talking about hacking the code to replace rpm with pacman), and then…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-03-27 · in Learning about Bootc -
…say that you're not part of said community. I have seen that there are instructions here for arch: https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865#issuecomment-2... I do see that the poster mentions that "Of course all of this is mitigated…
comment by worthless-trash · 2025-03-26 · in Learning about Bootc -
…and guess what? It's actually worse than I remembered. There's a list of distros using it at https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/blob/main/ADOPTERS.md - but actually the non-Fedora distros they list are RHEL and HeliumOS, which is a CentOS…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-03-25 · in Learning about Bootc -
I would suggest taking a look at bootc https://github.com/containers/bootc which enables you to use OCI / Docker containers as a transport and delivery system for OS updates. That makes available much of the tooling used to build and…
comment by nullify88 · 2025-02-22 · in Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images -
…composability), but "creating OS instead of VM" [did you mean container?] is not one of them. [0] https://github.com/containers/bootc [1] You can use DOCKER_HOST, and I'm happy that this option is there, but Nix does it better. [2] Perhaps…
comment by pzmarzly · 2025-01-14 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts -
…and perform upgrades. Extend your operating system using a Dockerfile as you would your app images: https://github.com/containers/bootc
comment by toprerules · 2024-12-25 · in Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?