[yjftsjthsd-h]

> A container for deploying bootable container images.

...as long as the images are in the Red Hat family (Fedora, CentOS Stream, RHEL).

[deivid]

Booting Docker images is fairly straightforward, I wrote about how to do this manually some years ago: https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/docker-based-images-on-baremet...

[whs]

I was going to try this to perhaps use it in production. Turns out the RHEL clones like Alma or Rocky doesn't have this thing in production-ready grade. All options you have now are owned by Red Hat themselves.

[jeffro_rh]

Just ask Neil Gompa to ship it. He doesn’t love it, but he helps everyone who asks him for advice.

[ethan_smith]

The project roadmap actually includes plans to expand beyond Red Hat family distributions - there's active work to add support for Debian/Ubuntu and potentially other distros.

[tayo42]

Is there something about this makes it red hat specific. An OS is just a specific collection of files in the end. Whether things are installed with rpm or Deb shouldn't matter?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

You'd think so:) Unfortunately the current implementation hardcodes calls to dnf: https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder/issues/869

[jeffro_rh]

Ublue also builds Ubuntu versions of a lot of this.

[eraser215]

bootc is a CNCF project now, so anybody can get on board.