BOOTC-BASE-IMAGES(7)

💖 BOOTC-BASE-IMAGES 💖

hi bestie!! welcome to bootc-base-images(7) 💅 it lives in the Miscellaneous Information Manual and it's short but it MATTERS, okay? let's go 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

• bootc-base-images — Base images 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. A lot of users are gonna be wayyy more interested in base (container) images. that's the whole vibe here. 💖

🍓 Fedora/CentOS 🍓

rn, the Fedora/CentOS bootc project (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc/) is the most closely aligned upstream project. periodt. 👑

For pre-built base images: any Fedora derivative that's already using ostree can be seamlessly converted into using bootc. like, for example, Fedora CoreOS (https://quay.io/repository/fedora/fedora-coreos) can be used as a base image — but heads up bestie, you will want to also rpm-ostree install bootc in your image builds currently. 😭

there are some overlaps between bootc and ignition and zincati though, lowkey important — see this pull request (https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-docs/pull/540) for more information. 🫶

For other derivatives such as the "Atomic desktops" (https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree), go read the discussion of relationships (see bootc-relationships(7)) which particularly covers interactions with rpm-ostree. 🦋

💫 Other 💫

BUT!! and this is the part where I need you to listen — bootc itself is not tied to Fedora derivatives. not me defending every other distro 💀. This issue (https://github.com/coreos/bootupd/issues/468) tracks the main blocker for other distributions.

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• bootc(8)
• bootc-docs(7)
• bootc-relationships(7)

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v1.17.1 🌈

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and that's the whole page, bestie — everything you need, no cap 🫶

cute little sign-off: this was BOOTC-BASE-IMAGES(7) from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, rockin' version v1.17.1. mwah, go be the main character of your own container image 💅✨