Post #1495858
2026-03-11 07:08 UTC
…actually does is talk to the OCI registry, find all the layers, download them and unpacks them into a .mstack/ directory, then converts the OCI metadata into a .nspawn file, and is done.
Or in other words, with this you can download any OCI container you like and then boot it with nspawn. Or in fact run it as a system service via RootMStack= in a unit file.
it's still a bit barebones, since the focus so far has been on acquiring the container trees and getting them into executable shape, but…
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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-11 07:09
…not so much actually adding the glue for integrating this nicely into the OS, but this will come in one of the next releases, hopefully. Oh, and all of this works unprivileged too, i.e. you can do "importctl --user pull-oci" to download a container image into your home directory.