54: BootC in the Wild

What does bootc look like when it's actually running in production, not just in a lab? James Harmison joins the Fedora Podcast to talk about building custom bootc images across wildly different contexts: NVIDIA drivers, AGX Orin hardware with custom kernel RPMs, replacing RHCOS images in OpenShift, and even a stripped-down SteamOS-style couch gaming rig. We also get into his contributions to the Chunkah project and the real-world UX conversations shaping where bootc goes next.

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🔗 Episode Resources

Project Website: bootc.dev

Bootc upstream: github.com/containers/bootc

Fedora bootc docs: docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc

Bootc Matrix room: matrix.to/#/#bootc:fedoraproject.org

🔖 Chapters

00:00 Stream start

01:41 Introduction

05:27 What is bootc?

12:21 James' operations

20:40 Use cases

28:00 Chunkah

33:04 Getting involved
Special Guest: James Harmison.