In this post we’ll get hands-on and use Docker’s LinuxKit to build, run and connect to a bootable Linux system image with OpenSSH. You will need Docker for Mac for this example, but LinuxKit can create images bootable on may types of system.
LinuxKit is an exciting new project spun out of Docker’s internals. It is designed to build bootable Linux systems that can run on bare-metal, the cloud, in a Docker container or through HyperKit (the Hypervisor used for Docker for Mac). A very small init process starts the system, then everything else is run through containers via containerd.
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