This week we dig into containers and what it takes to get started working with them.

-- During The Show --

03:50 Central Home Directory? - Nikki

• Central Mounted Storage
• Systemd Mounting vs AutoFS
• UID/GID
• FreeIPA
• SystemD Auto Mount

12:20 Linux on a Chrome book Instructions? - Pete

• Arch Linux Arm Wiki
• Write Protection Device
• How to use Linux on a Chromebook
• Mr Chromebox
• K Myers

16:20 Linux on a Mac? - Jeremy

• rEFInd Boot Manager
• Elementary on a Mac

17:45 RPORT? - Ryan

• FOSS
• 2FA
• Web App
• Creates VPN Tunnel

20:00 Athom Smart Home Gear - Charlie

• ESP Home and Aliexpress
• Athom Smart Open Source Firmware
• Athom Store

22:30 News Wire

• Condres OS 1.0
  • CondresOS
• Porteus Linux 5.0
  • 9 to 5 Linux
• Debian LTS 9 is EOL
  • 9 to 5 Linux
• Dark Table 4.0
  • Github
• Linux Steam Marketshare 1.18%
  • Phoronix
• GTK 5 and x11
  • The Register
• CISA Warns PwnKit Exploited in the Wild
  • Bleeping Computer
• Paralus
  • SD Times
• KDE Slimbook Gen4 Available
  • 9 to 5 Linux
• StarFighter Linux Laptop Teased
  • 9 to 5 Linux
• TUXEDO Pulse 15 Gen2
  • 9 to 5 Linux
• UK Open Source Software
  • Beta News

24:45 Basic Container Concepts

• Message Marlin Bot with #Learning
• Why Containers
• LXC
  • System Container
  • Emulates the entire stack
  • More like a VM
  • Kernel is shared
• Docker/Podman
  • Application Container
  • Single service per container
  • Just enough to run the service
• Container Host
• Linux Name Spaces and Cgroups
• Micro Services
• Container File vs Image
• Open Container Initiative (OCI)
• Container Registry (Pull/Push)
• Steve's Method
• Container Clients (Docker/Podman)
• Docker
  • Runs as root
  • requires daemon
• Podman
  • FOSS
  • runs rootless
  • no daemon
• Buildah - builds containers
• Skopeo - container inspection/manager
• runc - container runner/feature builder
• crun - optional more flexible runtime
• PODs
• Podman and SystemD
• IT is cyclical

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