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NAME
toolbox - Unprivileged development environment
SYNOPSIS
toolbox [--verbose | -v] COMMAND [ARGS]
DESCRIPTION
Toolbox is a tool that offers a familiar RPM based environment for developing and debugging software that runs fully unprivileged using Podman.
The toolbox container is a fully mutable container; when you see
yum install ansible for example, that's something you can do inside your
toolbox container, without affecting the base operating system.
This is particularly useful on OSTree based Fedora systems like Silverblue. The intention of these systems is to discourage installation of software on the host, and instead install software as (or in) containers.
However this tool doesn't require using an OSTree based system — it works equally well if you're running e.g. existing Fedora Workstation or Server, and that's a useful way to incrementally adopt containerization.
The toolbox environment is based on an OCI image. On Fedora this is the
fedora-toolbox image. This image is then customized for the current user to
create a toolbox container that seamlessly integrates with the rest of the
operating system.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
--help, -h
Print a synopsis of this manual and exit.
--verbose, -v
Print debug information. This includes messages coming from the standard error stream of internal commands.
COMMANDS
Commands for working with toolbox containers and images:
toolbox-create(1)
Create a new toolbox container.
toolbox-enter(1)
Enter an existing toolbox container for interactive use.
toolbox-list(1)
List existing toolbox containers and images.
SEE ALSO
buildah(1), podman(1)