Ansible and bootc

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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..

Bootstrapping bootc using Fedora CoreOS

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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 (Bootable Containers): One Container Image to rule them all

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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).