Alpine can load an overlay tarball (apkovl.tar.gz) on boot, of which it may contain a script to bootstrap a system (e.g., /etc/local.d/00_bootstrap.start) or a

Alpine can load an overlay tarball (apkovl.tar.gz) on boot, of which it may contain a script to bootstrap a system (e.g., /etc/local.d/00_bootstrap.start) or an /etc/apk/world file that indicate a package to install on boot. The requirement is to be able to put a file named hostname.apkovl.tar.gz in one of the mounted disk(s) (can also be placed in the same disk as the boot disk itself). [1][2] [1]: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_local_backup https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_local_backup [2]: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Qemu#Live_mode https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Qemu#Live_mode (would be similar to this)