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> A container for deploying bootable container images. ...as long as the images are in the Red Hat family (Fedora, CentOS Stream, RHEL).
by yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
> A container for deploying bootable container images.
...as long as the images are in the Red Hat family (Fedora, CentOS Stream, RHEL).
- tayo42 1y agoIs there something about this makes it red hat specific. An OS is just a specific collection of files in the end. Whether things are installed with rpm or Deb shouldn't matter?
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoYou'd think so:) Unfortunately the current implementation hardcodes calls to dnf: https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder/issues/869 https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder/issues/869
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- ethan_smith 1y agoThe project roadmap actually includes plans to expand beyond Red Hat family distributions - there's active work to add support for Debian/Ubuntu and potentially other distros.
- whs 1y agoI was going to try this to perhaps use it in production. Turns out the RHEL clones like Alma or Rocky doesn't have this thing in production-ready grade. All options you have now are owned by Red Hat themselves.
- jeffro_rh 1y agoJust ask Neil Gompa to ship it. He doesn’t love it, but he helps everyone who asks him for advice.
- deivid 1y agoBooting Docker images is fairly straightforward, I wrote about how to do this manually some years ago: https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/docker-based-images-on-baremetal/ https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/docker-based-images-on-baremet...
- jeffro_rh 1y agoUblue also builds Ubuntu versions of a lot of this.
- eraser215 1y agobootc is a CNCF project now, so anybody can get on board.