How To Put Swift in a Box: Container Images From Scratch With Swift Container Plugin

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Demonstrates building Linux container images directly from Swift Package Manager using Swift Container Plugin, cross‑compiling Linux binaries on macOS with static SDKs or custom dynamic SDKs produced by Swift SDK generator (installed via Swiftly), creating image layers by hand (manifest, config, gzipped tar layers) and uploading them with registry HTTP calls, then running the result on macOS with the new container runtime (micro‑VM per instance) and containerization framework (VM init); the automated plugin produces a pullable image reference and the demos run successfully.

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1. 0:00Swift and containers intro
2. 3:13Why Swift for services
3. 7:02Hummingbird web service
4. 8:48Swift Container Plugin demo
5. 13:12Cross-compiling Swift for Linux
6. 15:42Swift SDKs for cross-compile
7. 17:48Dynamic Swift SDKs
8. 20:38Container image structure
9. 25:17Building images from scratch
10. 29:48Upload images with curl
11. 30:51Automate builds with SPM
12. 31:55Run containers with Swift tool
13. 32:38Swift Container runtime
14. 35:24Containerization in Xcode
15. 40:18Summary and next steps

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