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A subsequent commit will leverage this to tunnel the same environment variables over D-Bus when the toolbox script forwards its own invocation over 'flatpak-spawn --host'. This is necessary because the process offering the underlying org.freedesktop.Flatpak D-Bus service used by 'flatpak-spawn --host' doesn't have some variables, like COLORTERM and TERM, set in its environment, and their absence hinders the use of interactive shells. Instead of keeping two separate hard coded lists, one for flatpak-spawn and another for podman, it's better to use the same set for both to avoid silly and weird bugs. https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/pull/54 |
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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 project 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 thatseamlessly 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 ~]$