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Debarshi Ray 8127daa29e Add c.gh.debarshiray.toolbox to containers and images from 'create' 
Commit 0ab6eb7401 introduced the com.github.debarshiray.toolbox
label as a better way to identify toolbox containers and images. It
might be necessary to support creating toolbox containers from base
toolbox images that are not appropriately labeled. eg., this would
allow users to use newer versions of the toolbox script with older base
images to debug problems that are only seen in those versions of the
images.

While no change has been made, yet, to either enforce the presence or
override the absence of the com.github.debarshiray.toolbox label it is
prudent [1] to ensure that artifacts produced by 'toolbox create' are
adequately labeled regardless of what labels the input base image had.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/pull/91
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README.md

Toolbox — Unprivileged development environment

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.

Usage

Create your toolbox container:

[user@hostname ~]$ toolbox create
[user@hostname ~]$

This will create a container, and an image, called fedora-toolbox-<your-username>:<version-id> that's specifically customised for your host user.

Enter the toolbox:

[user@hostname ~]$ toolbox enter
🔹[user@toolbox ~]$