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Notes from a call on June 27
Debarshi has been experimenting with various container tools on Fedora Silverblue, trying to manually reproduce some of the CoreOS [toolbox] experience.
Some issues he ran into / conclusions we came to:
- Need to be root. We want to avoid the need to prefix every command with sudo, so we need some a way around this. Owen pointed out that runc has a --rootless option, which may be what is needed here
- Toolbox currently uses rkt to create the image, but that is dead, going forward, so we should use buildah or skopeo instead
- We should place our image into the official container storage space, so it is visible to other container tooling
- We need a custom image - it should be more or less equivalent to the workstation as far as the commandline is concerned
- Unsolved problem: how to pass the Wayland socket into the container. Owen suggets that this may be an selinux issue
Next steps, aim to have done by next week:
- Write a toolbox-alike script
- Make it duplicate the user account
- Make it use a custom shell prompt
- Use the stock fedora image for now
Next steps, after Guadec:
- Start defining a customized image to use, call it fedora-toolbox, or something
- Create an initial package, and ask some people to try it out and see how it works
- Look into terminal integration