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by eaglefield 995 days ago
I'm running silverblue but running my containers through distrobox. Both toolbox and distrobox are running on podman under the hood, so it's the same technology as far as I understand. However, distrobox has some interesting features relevant to this idea of development isolation. One is that it has an assemble feature[1] built-in. Where you can feed it a recipe file and it will build or rebuild containers accordingly. The other is that it allows setting a custom home directory for the container, among other host/container isolating options[2].

Perfomance wise my containers take a couple MB of rams and no perceptible CPU usage when not in use. At least as far as I can tell.

[1] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d...

[2] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d...