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summary="Base image for creating Fedora toolbox containers" \
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# Toolbox — Unprivileged development environment
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[Toolbox](https://github.com/containers/toolbox) is a tool for Linux operating
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systems, which allows the use of containerized command line environments. It is
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[Toolbox](https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox) is a tool that offers a
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built on top of [Podman](https://podman.io/) and other standard container
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familiar RPM based environment for developing and debugging software that runs
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technologies from [OCI](https://opencontainers.org/).
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fully unprivileged using [Podman](https://podman.io/).
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The toolbox container is a fully *mutable* container; when you see
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`yum install ansible` for example, that's something you can do inside your
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toolbox container, without affecting the base operating system.
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This is particularly useful on
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This is particularly useful on
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[OSTree](https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) based Fedora systems like
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[OSTree](https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) based operating systems like
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[Silverblue](https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/). The intention of these
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[Fedora CoreOS](https://coreos.fedoraproject.org/) and
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[Silverblue](https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/). The intention of these
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systems is to discourage installation of software on the host, and instead
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systems is to discourage installation of software on the host, and instead
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install software as (or in) containers.
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install software as (or in) containers — they mostly don't even have package
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managers like DNF or YUM. This makes it difficult to set up a development
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environment or install tools for debugging in the usual way.
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However, this tool doesn't *require* using an OSTree based system — it
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Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container within
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works equally well if you're running e.g. existing Fedora Workstation or
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which one can install their favourite development and debugging tools, editors
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Server, and that's a useful way to incrementally adopt containerization.
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and SDKs. For example, it's possible to do `yum install ansible` without
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affecting the base operating system.
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However, this tool doesn't *require* using an OSTree based system. It works
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equally well on Fedora Workstation and Server, and that's a useful way to
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incrementally adopt containerization.
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The toolbox environment is based on an [OCI](https://www.opencontainers.org/)
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The toolbox environment is based on an [OCI](https://www.opencontainers.org/)
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image. On Fedora this is the `fedora-toolbox` image. This image is then
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image. On Fedora this is the `fedora-toolbox` image. This image is used to
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customized for the current user to create a toolbox container that seamlessly
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create a toolbox container that seamlessly integrates with the rest of the
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integrates with the rest of the operating system.
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operating system by providing access to the user's home directory, the Wayland
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and X11 sockets, networking (including Avahi), removable devices (like USB
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sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev
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database, etc..
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## Installation
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Toolbox is installed by default on Fedora Silverblue. On other operating
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systems it's just a matter of installing the `toolbox` package.
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## Usage
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## Usage
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### Create your toolbox container:
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### Create your toolbox container:
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```
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```console
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[user@hostname ~]$ toolbox create
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[user@hostname ~]$ toolbox create
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Created container: fedora-toolbox-33
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Enter with: toolbox enter
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[user@hostname ~]$
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[user@hostname ~]$
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```
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```
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This will create a container, and an image, called
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This will create a container called `fedora-toolbox-<version-id>`.
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`fedora-toolbox-<your-username>:<version-id>` that's specifically customised
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for your host user.
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### Enter the toolbox:
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### Enter the toolbox:
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```
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```console
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[user@hostname ~]$ toolbox enter
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[user@hostname ~]$ toolbox enter
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🔹[user@toolbox ~]$
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⬢[user@toolbox ~]$
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```
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### Remove a toolbox container:
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```console
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[user@hostname ~]$ toolbox rm fedora-toolbox-33
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[user@hostname ~]$
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```
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## Dependencies and Building
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Toolbox requires at least Podman 1.4.0 to work, and uses the Meson build
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system.
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The following dependencies are required to build it:
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- meson
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- go-md2man
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- systemd
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- go
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- ninja
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The following dependencies enable various optional features:
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- bash-completion
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It can be built and installed as any other typical Meson-based project:
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```console
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[user@hostname toolbox]$ meson -Dprofile_dir=/etc/profile.d builddir
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[user@hostname toolbox]$ ninja -C builddir
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[user@hostname toolbox]$ sudo ninja -C builddir install
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```
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Toolbox is written in Go. Consult the
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[src/go.mod](https://github.com/containers/toolbox/blob/main/src/go.mod) file
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for a full list of all the Go dependencies.
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By default, Toolbox uses Go modules and all the required Go packages are
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automatically downloaded as part of the build. There's no need to worry about
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the Go dependencies, unless the build environment doesn't have network access
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or any such peculiarities.
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## Distro support
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By default, Toolbox creates the container using an
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[OCI](https://www.opencontainers.org/) image called
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`<ID>-toolbox:<VERSION-ID>`, where `<ID>` and `<VERSION-ID>` are taken from the
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host's `/usr/lib/os-release`. For example, the default image on a Fedora 33
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host would be `fedora-toolbox:33`.
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This default can be overridden by the `--image` option in `toolbox create`,
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but operating system distributors should provide an adequately configured
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default image to ensure a smooth user experience.
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## Image requirements
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Toolbox customizes newly created containers in a certain way. This requires
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certain tools and paths to be present and have certain characteristics inside
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the OCI image.
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Tools:
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* `getent(1)`
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* `id(1)`
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* `ln(1)`
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* `mkdir(1)`: for hosts where `/home` is a symbolic link to `/var/home`
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* `passwd(1)`
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* `readlink(1)`
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* `rm(1)`
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* `rmdir(1)`: for hosts where `/home` is a symbolic link to `/var/home`
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* `sleep(1)`
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* `test(1)`
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* `touch(1)`
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* `unlink(1)`
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* `useradd(8)`
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* `usermod(8)`
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* `/etc/host.conf`: optional, if present not a bind mount
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* `/etc/hosts`: optional, if present not a bind mount
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* `/etc/krb5.conf.d`: directory, not a bind mount
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* `/etc/localtime`: optional, if present not a bind mount
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* `/etc/machine-id`: optional, not a bind mount
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* `/etc/resolv.conf`: optional, if present not a bind mount
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* `/etc/timezone`: optional, if present not a bind mount
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Toolbox enables `sudo(8)` access inside containers. The following is necessary
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* The image should have `sudo(8)` enabled for users belonging to either the
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`sudo` or `wheel` groups, and the group itself should exist. File an
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[issue](https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/new) if you really need
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support for a different group. However, it's preferable to keep this list as
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short as possible.
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* The image should allow empty passwords for `sudo(8)`. This can be achieved
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by either adding the `nullok` option to the `PAM(8)` configuration, or by
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add the `NOPASSWD` tag to the `sudoers(5)` configuration.
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it will refuse images that aren't tagged with
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`com.github.containers.toolbox="true"` and
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`com.github.debarshiray.toolbox="true"` labels. These labels are meant to be
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used by the maintainer of the image to indicate that they have read this
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document and tested that the image works with Toolbox. You can use the
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```Dockerfile
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