Universal Blue: Delivering Experiences Using Bootable Containers

What is Universal Blue?

The Universal Blue project builds custom bootable container images via OCI/Docker containers. One of the reasons the project was started was to test and validate this method of distribution and modification as a way to experiment with this new model to see if it is viable.

Topics

- What is Universal Blue?

    - Brief description of what the project is

- Core Technology

    - Understand how the cloud native technlogies powering Universal Blue work at a basic level

- Build Your Own

    - Show how approachable building your own custom image is using Cloud Native Technlogies

- Contribute

    - Show how low the barrier to entry contributing is when you adopt Cloud Native Development

Why should you come to this talk?

If you enjoy the following:

- See what is possible when using Bootable Containers
- Live demo of Bazzite (based on Fedora Atomic) running on a Steam Deck OLED
- Live demo of a workflow building a whole new custom image!
- Lessons learned from Universal Blue that would be useful open source projects:
  - Tooling lessons
  - Community patterns that we have observed
  - Infrastructure lessons learned