Bootc Server Quick Start

You're in the right place if you've:

built an image FROM Fedora, CentOS or AlmaLinux bootc
pushed it to GHCR, Docker Hub, GCR, Quay, etc.
started reading up on image-builder, wondering how to deploy it

We maintain a small starting image that will switch to your image. No need to run image-builder yourself!

This tool is not required for Kheeper users.
Check out our Kheeper quick start instead.

Image Fully qualified, from any registry.

Registry user Optional for public images.

Registry token Never leaves your browser.

A public image that reads your image from instance metadata on first boot, runs bootc switch and reboots into it.

gcloud compute instances create my-vm \
  --image-project kheeper --image-family bootc-quickstart \
  --machine-type c4-standard-2 \
  --boot-disk-size 20GB \
  --metadata 'bootc-image=quay.io/you/app:latest'

For any provider or PXE server that boots an iPXE script. It boots the Fedora installer with a public kickstart that installs your image to the first disk, which it wipes. Your settings ride on the kernel command line, so nothing about your install is hosted anywhere.

#!ipxe
set mirror http://mirror.rackspace.com/fedora/releases/45/Everything/x86_64/os
kernel ${mirror}/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.repo=${mirror} inst.ks=https://storage.googleapis.com/kheeper-images-public/bootc-quickstart.ks ip=dhcp bootc.image=quay.io/you/app:latest
initrd ${mirror}/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
boot