Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
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Re: Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
#2On a tangential note, does anyone here remember Erlang on Xen [0]? It's a project from a decade ago, allowing you to package your code to run directly on the hypervisor without an OS. I really liked that approach and am wondering why it seems to have hit a dead end.
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#4On a tangential note, does anyone here remember Erlang on Xen [0]? It's a project from a decade ago, allowing you to package your code to run directly on the hypervisor without an OS. I really liked that approach and am wondering why it seems to have hit a dead end. [0] https://github.com/cloudozer/ling
It is not the same (as it uses Linux kernel) but Nerves project is an interesting way of using BEAM (Erlang VM) for "embedded" applications.
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#5https://github.com/linka-cloud/d2vm does a similar thing an I‘ve used it successfully
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#6Somewhat-related, a project of mine (https://github.com/queer/peckish) allows for converting docker images to ext4 images, among other formats. A way to turn it straight to a bootable image is very cool though, I’ll have to give this a try later!
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#7What about the other way around? Writing my own docker(-compose)files by hand kindof stinks.
Re: Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
#8What about the other way around? Writing my own docker(-compose)files by hand kindof stinks.
So, a bit like docker container commit but actually good?
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#9Something like this is what I had desired when briefly experimenting with Fedora CoreOS and having to build layered images for ZFS support. I was new to CoreOS and was stuck right after I finished building an OCI image. Eventually I learned that the only way forward was to boot with a base image, then layer what I had built and run `rpm-ostree commit`.
I wonder if this project would've served my use case. The OCI images you build when layering FCOS images all build atop the base FCOS image. So I would expect them to be "bootable" in some sense.
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#10That's cool! Can you use it to display react apps on the screen though?