Building a bootc image for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) “Image Mode” requires Red Hat Subscription Entitlement details. This can be tricky to get from the build server. Let’s fix that.
Tag: bootc
Ansible is not ideal for use with bootc, but for anyone with a lot of Ansible automation it’s hard to pivot to “the next thing”. Let’s use Ansible anyway..
To know what’s changing in a new bootc (Bootable Container) image use container tooling to generate a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).
Getting bootc initially installed is a little different since it needs an ostree based OS. You could install a bootc image into any running Linux host, but I’ve been playing with Fedora CoreOS and using Ignition/Butane to configure Fedora CoreOS. So let’s use Fedora CoreOS on the host for bootstrapping bootc.
bootc has the potential to be groundbreaking (for Enterprise server Linux). A scalable and immutable OS for servers. (Although I like the term Atomic better).