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bootc — Boot and upgrade via container images. Manage transactional, in-place operating system updates using

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Problem

How to use the bootc command: Boot and upgrade via container images. Manage transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. More information: <https://manned.org/bootc>.

Solution

bootc — Boot and upgrade via container images. Manage transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. More information: <https://manned.org/bootc>.

Show deployments in the order they will appear in the bootloader:

bootc status

Check if any updates are available:

bootc upgrade --check

Prepare a new update and reboot into it:

bootc upgrade --apply

Change OS base to new container image:

bootc switch {{image}}

Reboot into the previous ostree deployment:

bootc rollback

Apply transactional changes to the system configuration:

bootc edit

Code Snippets

Show deployments in the order they will appear in the bootloader

bootc status

Check if any updates are available

bootc upgrade --check

Prepare a new update and reboot into it

bootc upgrade --apply

Change OS base to new container image

bootc switch {{image}}

Reboot into the previous ostree deployment

bootc rollback

Context

tldr-pages: linux/bootc

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