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: https://bootc.dev
Bootc upstream: https://github.com/containers/bootc
Fedora bootc docs: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc
Bootc Matrix room: https://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.

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