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Interesting. Are there any OS’ that implement such a structure? Sounds kind of like chromeos if it was geared towards servers.

• jleedev 5y ago
  Container Optimized OS is quite literally “We let the Chromium OS folks make a server OS.” https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/ https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/
• politician 5y ago
  Nix?
  • edgyquant 5y ago
    I don’t think nix has an immutable filesystem, servers etc. Im sure you could build an imagine like that but you could do that with any distro.
    • elikoga 5y ago
    • alberth 5y ago
      Nanobsd has immutable file system. Mostly used for routers. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/ https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/
  • BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
    This is a great blog post on how to do this on nix, https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings . My Nix machine is stateless apart from a few directories such as home that I want to remain across reboots. When I shutdown/restart the server anything not in a mount I’ve explicitly configured to be persisted, gets erased. The initial setup was a bit of work but the end result works flawlessly.
• mmh0000 5y ago
  There are several options, one of the most popular Linux options right now is Fedora Silverblue[0] "The toolbox is using container technology to bring back your familiar tools and development environment on top of the immutable Silverblue base, for the best of both worlds." [0] https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/ https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
• lrvick 5y ago
  There is Flatcar Linux which is literally based on ChromeOS for standalone systems. For high availability Talos Linux is the way to go with their k8s-appliance-os approach, IMO.