Silverblue's move to bootable OCI images: Linux will never be the same

It's finally here, the cloud native linux desktop ... bringing OCI container images and booting right off of them. In this video I made my own version of Fedora Silverblue via a Containerfile (also known as Dockerfiles) and a GitHub action.

WARNING: This feature is in development, make sure you have backups and at a minimum at least one known-good snapshot!

#linux #fedora #gnome #kde #flatpak #silverblue #oci

[Spwnt]

i've fallen down a similar immutable, atomic, image based os rabbit hole that you have fallen down over the last year and it's really exciting to watch you videos with the passion and excitement that i also feel for this stuff. keep up the good work. love it. i think people are really sleeping on this stuff. they don't realize how powerful and cool it is and it feels like the future of the linux desktop.

[Gunzy]

I just love how excited Jorge is here. I am excited by this as well.

[cheebadigga]

This could actually be huge for enterprises as well! Nice one!!

[notyet]

Time for someone to build SilverSteam! Steamos experience with a silverblue backbone.

[Happy_Chappy]

Thank you for all you do to spread the immutable word :) Stumbled across your channel today and looking forward to catching up on all your content. You've got a new subscriber.

[ultra]

Silverblue OCI distros are going to become the new ubuntu-based distros

[florianm.]

Thank you for this video. I am hyped by that move!

[lsdowdle]

Just wanted to mention, aside from the immutable part that is part of Silverblue, Fedora has offered the ability for users to create their own customized versions easily... buy using the the tools they provide for building live iso images. You can decide what packages you want, build your image, and when done... you have a live .iso image with what you want... and you can use it only as a live image or install it. That's actually how some of the Fedora-based distros have been able to do their own thing. It involves modifying one or more of the Fedora provided kickstart files... as Fedora publishes all of the kickstarts used to build their official live images.

I'm glad you have an option for building one's own immutable media now.

[sanjeev]

Looking forward to it. Do make new videos after a few weeks if there is any new progress.

[adamyork]

This is cool. I am a KDE user. I'd like to see something like this for Kinoite.

[madbananas]

Good stuff, Jorge. I still need to get this fully. However, I get that what you're showing us here is how to rebase to a different tree, like we would do when moving between different versions of Silverblue, i.e., switching from Kinote to Sericea or "upgrading" to the next Fedora version. Now, how does this work when using an OCI image? From what I see in your presentation, once the image is downloaded, its filesystem is deployed as a new tree and set as the active deployment to boot from on the next boot -- is that right?

[gnuplusmatt]

FYI it's pronounced Ki like key to the door. A Quay is a place where a boat ties up. Yet another boat pun at Docker's expense

[speedytruck]

This looks awesome. But I have a question. If I were to rebase to a different image with a different DE, for example, what would happen to the config files? I think /etc is writable, so will it be replaced, overwritten, or won't change at all? I know that different DEs don't play nice with others configs', so hopefully there is a way to take care of that.

[inigoarejula]

What about update time? Each image is full downloaded or it is incremental?

[sammypanda]

if this is the way the linux desktop is moving does that mean we are all going to narrow down to being exclusively based around fedora silverblue + rpm-ostree?

[AvineshSinghSaab]

NixOS without the complex expressions 😝