Immutability and State Making an Immutable OS
summary
LinuxKit claims an immutable, container-built OS that an entire image can be produced and run in about a minute, assembling a tiny rootfs from images, a YAML config, and containerd as the runtime. The system has no package manager, separates immutable system from persistent volumes for state, and supports build push run workflows to produce ISOs, AMIs and VMs. The project reaches about ninety contributors in six months and the demos boot minimal machines reliably, proving the approach works.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:24Justin Cormack
- 4:00Immutability
- 5:12Mass Production
- 6:29State
- 7:05Kernels
- 9:52Containers
- 12:22The Kit
- 13:24Yambol
- 16:03Consuming Linux
- 17:00Nick Sauce
- 18:41Tools
- 20:26Stateless OS
- 22:46Stateless Model
- 24:45Reproducibility
- 27:27Appliances
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