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This needs a directory that's going to be present on the host operating system across various configurations of all supported distributions, such as the hosts running the CI, but not inside the Toolbx containers. It looks like /etc/kernel is present on both Debian and Fedora, but absent from the fedora-toolbox images. On a Debian 10 server, it's owned by several packages: $ dpkg-query --search /etc/kernel dkms, systemd, grub2-common, initramfs-tools, apt: /etc/kernel ... while on Fedora 36 Workstation: $ rpm --file --query /etc/kernel systemd-udev-250.8-1.fc36.x86_64 Currently, there's no way to get assert_line to use the stderr_lines array [1]. This is worked around by assigning stderr_lines to the 'lines' array. [1] https://github.com/bats-core/bats-assert/issues/42 https://github.com/containers/toolbox/pull/1153 |
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Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of containerized command line environments. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.
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 install tools for debugging in the usual way.
Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container within
which one can install their favourite development and debugging 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 seamlessly integrates with the rest of the
operating system by providing 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..
Installation & Use
See our guides on installing & getting started with Toolbox and Linux distro support.