Guitars, Gear, and Open Source
bootc is ridiculously amazing for headless servers – everyone knows that! It’s also a great fit for appliance-style graphical kiosks. What about a daily driver like a desktop or laptop? The TL;DR is it’s amazing, and I thought I’d share my experience.
After moving my home server to fedora-bootc, and gitting a really nice git workflow in place, I remembered that I have this Raspberry Pi 4 sitting around collecting dust. This was a really nice system that I bought to run Octopi to manage my two Prusa Mini printers. Now that I’ve upgraded to the MK4, I don’t feel the need to use Octoprint any more. …but having a useful aarch container host on the network *is* appealing to me especially since I do a decent amount of container work on my M3 Mac using Podman Desktop. Fortunately, it’s pretty simple to get fedora-bootc working great on the Pi4. So grab your RPi, blow the dust off, and get ready to get some value out of it.
Continue reading “Bootable containers on the Raspberry Pi 4”My last post walked through my migration to using fedora-bootc on my home server/NAS. In this follow up, I’m going to show you how I’ve automated the OS upgrades. I should note that while I’m a huge fan and believer in Git-Ops conceptually, I’m a noob at using the technology. Please leave a comment or ping me if you see improvements that can be made. I suspect there are many! Anyway, let’s dive in.
Earlier this year I put together an upgraded home server. In all honesty, I’ve been loving it. Not only has the hardware & disk layout worked really, but deploying all my applications as containers has made everything just work and I haven’t had to put my hands on the system once. Everything is self updating. ….until something inevitably breaks, but I’ll worry about that later. ;)
My goal from the beginning was to deploy this using bootc, but due to some time pressure at work that wasn’t possible. I finally made some time and successfully moved the system over to fedora-bootc, and I’m going to share my experience for others considering doing the same. Keep in mind that I don’t expect details of this post to age very well as the tech is moving pretty fast.
