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Timothée Ravier 9506173f88 images: Don't leak NAME and VERSION into the Toolbx container 
Note that there can be only one ARG per line.  Otherwise, the build may
fail with some build systems.  eg., Fedora's [1], which uses Docker, not
Podman.

Only the images for currently maintained Fedoras (ie., 36, 37, 38 & 39)
were updated.

[1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=98150241

https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/188
2023-03-01 17:06:58 +01:00
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Containerfile images: Don't leak NAME and VERSION into the Toolbx container 2023-03-01 17:06:58 +01:00
ensure-files images: Ensure that the gpg2(1), gnupg2(7), etc. manuals are available 2023-02-02 17:25:31 +01:00
extra-packages images: Use the package name instead of a virtual Provides for gnupg2 2023-02-02 16:52:45 +01:00
missing-docs images: Ensure that the gpg2(1), gnupg2(7), etc. manuals are available 2023-02-02 17:25:31 +01:00
README.md images: Synchronize README.md 2023-02-07 20:46:38 +01:00

README.md

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.