Last month, the Fedora Council approved a Community Initiative [1] aimed at enhancing collaboration among image-based Fedora variants (like CoreOS, IoT and Atomic Desktop) and empowering other projects and individual users to create their own Fedora-based derivatives by working together on bootable container technologies.
We've been holding meetings and chatting on matrix, and have been compiling a list of issues [2] and a general roadmap [3] aligned around convergence among the different image-based Fedora workgroups, and a set of cross-cutting feature areas related to composefs. anaconda, CI, dnf and partial pulls with zstd:chunked.
If you're interested in getting involved, join us for our meetings every Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (https://meet.google.com/poh-xmxm-qyc) or reach out on matrix in #bootc:fedoraproject.org.
If you want to learn more about the technology, there were a few talks related to Bootable Containers at Devconf.cz earlier this month that are worth checking out:
- Keynote: What if you could boot a container? - DevConf.CZ 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERVyBc_fElY - Customize your OS like a container - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDvE3hbmLUo - Streamlining bootable container workflows with podman-bootc - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLPyeXmIdyE
[1] https://fedoramagazine.org/get-involved-with-fedora-bootable-containers/ [2] https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/tracker/-/issues [3] https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/tracker/-/issues/24