2c09606603
We wasted some time trying to get the tests running locally, when all we
were missing were the 'git submodule ...' commands.
Add some more obvious hints about this possible stumbling block.
Note that Bats cautions against printing outside the @test, setup* or
teardown* functions [1]. In this case, doing so leads to the first line
of the error output going missing, when using the pretty formatter for
human consumption:
$ bats --formatter pretty ./test/system
✗ setup_suite
Forgot to run 'git submodule init' and 'git submodule update' ?
bats warning: Executed 1 instead of expected 191 tests
191 tests, 1 failure, 190 not run
[1] https://bats-core.readthedocs.io/en/stable/writing-tests.html
https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/1298
Signed-off-by: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
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| toolbox | ||
Toolbox is a tool for Linux, which allows the use of interactive command line environments for development and troubleshooting the host operating system, without having to install software on the host. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.
Toolbox environments have seamless access to the user's home directory, the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking (including Avahi), removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc..
This is particularly useful on OSTree based operating systems like Fedora CoreOS and Silverblue. The intention of these systems is to discourage installation of software on the host, and instead install software as (or in) containers — they mostly don't even have package managers like DNF or YUM. This makes it difficult to set up a development environment or troubleshoot the operating system in the usual way.
Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container within
which one can install their favourite development and troubleshooting tools,
editors and SDKs. For example, it's possible to do yum install ansible
without affecting the base operating system.
However, this tool doesn't require using an OSTree based system. It works equally well on Fedora Workstation and 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 used to
create a toolbox container that offers the interactive command line
environment.
Note that Toolbox makes no promise about security beyond what's already available in the usual command line environment on the host that everybody is familiar with.
Installation & Use
See our guides on installing & getting started with Toolbox and Linux distro support.