BOOTC(8)

👑 BOOTC — the bootc manual page, section 8 (System Manager's Manual) 💅

okay bestie, sit down, we're learning bootc and honestly? it's giving main character energy for your whole OS. this is the page for the bootc command, from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual. let's GO 🚀

---

✨ NAME ✨

bootc — deploy and transactionally in-place with bootable container images 🐳

---

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bootc [OPTIONS...] <SUBCOMMAND>

---

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Deploy and transactionally in-place with bootable container images. yes, that's the whole vibe — your OS is a container image and it updates like one. no cap. ✨

the bootc project currently uses ostree-containers as a backend to support the whole bootable-container-image model. once it's installed — whether that happened directly via bootc install (which, btw, gets executed as part of a container) or through some other mechanism like an OS installer tool — further updates can be pulled with bootc upgrade. like, that's it. that's the loop. 🔁

for guides to building, installing, and managing bootable images, see bootc-docs(7). go read it, i'll wait. 🫶

---

💖 SUBCOMMANDS 💖

every single one of these is a full mood, and every single one is listed here, no skipping:

• bootc upgrade — download an updated container image and queue it up to apply. future you is gonna be so happy 🙈
• bootc switch — target a new container image reference for the system to boot. changing your whole image? slay 💅
• bootc rollback — change the bootloader entry ordering; the deployment under rollback will be queued for the next boot, and the current one will become rollback. and if there's a staged entry (that's an unapplied, queued upgrade) then it will be discarded 💀 so yeah, know what you're doing before you run this one.
• bootc edit — apply full changes to the host specification. like, the whole thing. ✨
• bootc status — display status. the "am i okay" check. run it. always run it. 🌸
• bootc usr-overlay — add a transient overlayfs on /usr. temporary, bestie. transient. don't get attached 🦋
• bootc install — install the running container to a target 🎯
• bootc container — operations which can be executed as part of a container build 🔥
• bootc loader-entries — operations on Boot Loader Specification (BLS) entries 👑

---

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• bootc-docs(7) — literally go read it, i said what i said

---

⭐ VERSION ⭐

• v1.17.1 — that's the version, periodt 💜

---

okay that's the whole page, you ate it, i'm obsessed 🫶 this was BOOTC(8) from the System Manager's Manual, and this version is v1.17.1. go update something (safely). mwah 💖✨🎀