[tuananh]

can we agree to use OCI for everything :D

[deknos]

as long as we can convert the OCI to an bootable VM image, i am fine with that. But i also think, there's an size limit

[yjftsjthsd-h]

There are still growing pains, but https://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder exists and is likely to become exactly that in the general case (as it already is for the redhat family).

[tetha]

Oh those size limits are pushed plenty by AI images, no worries. I recently had a good laugh when I found a docker image that was 2 - 3 times as big as the OS partition of a lot of our smaller servers.

And our OS image build order would reuse layers better than those.

[bravetraveler]

No doubt, I've regularly encountered ~2TB container images with enough layers to make one weep. SISO, slop in/slop out (sorry).

[grepfru_it]

Time to find out if one can make a dockerbomb image >:-)

[bravetraveler]

I believe in you, 'fallocate' can be put into entrypoint :P This way the size is a surprise, not constant

[tuananh]

i think it's already been done with bootable containers.

redhat has recently GA bootable container as well.