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> Silverblue is pretty great. But it's really been taken to another level in the last few months since it started allowing you to _boot_ from a container image.
by pxc 4y ago
> Silverblue is pretty great. But it's really been taken to another level in the last few months since it started allowing you to _boot_ from a container image.
What was the state of affairs before? Is the main advantage that at install time, all you do is download the image (i.e., you don't have to actually run the automation on the target)?
Does the image have to be of Fedora?
- pkulak 4y agoWell, before it was just a lot more work to create an install image and keep it updated. So you'd just stick with the official Silverblue image, or the spins (KDE, Sway, etc). And yeah, the advantage now is that you just pull from your image, and all the automations are run on the server beforehand. That means, if something breaks, you just don't upgrade because there's no new image, everything stays in sync across all your machines for free, and you don't have to use a bash/ansible/whatever script when you set up a new machine. Upgrades are also faster because all the layering has been done beforehand, thought that's not much of an issue if you have upgrades run in the background, which you should.