https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox

Unprivileged development environment
https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox

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Unprivileged development environment

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox
• Owner: debarshiray
• License: apache-2.0
• Fork: true (containers/toolbox)
• Created: 2019-10-10T13:31:28.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-29T23:30:51.000Z (10 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-29T23:46:20.712Z (10 days ago)
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 9.03 MB
• Stars: 35
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: COPYING
  • Code of conduct: CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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README

        
![README](data/gfx/README.gif)

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[![Arch Linux package](https://img.shields.io/archlinux/v/extra/x86_64/toolbox)](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/toolbox/)

[![Fedora package](https://img.shields.io/fedora/v/toolbox/rawhide)](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/toolbox/)

[Toolbox](https://containertoolbx.org/) is a tool for Linux, which allows the

use of interactive command line environments for development and

troubleshooting the host operating system, without having to install software

on the host. It is built on top of [Podman](https://podman.io/) and other

standard container technologies from [OCI](https://opencontainers.org/).

Toolbox environments have seamless access to the user's home directory,

the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking (including Avahi), removable devices

(like USB sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the

udev database, etc..

This is particularly useful on

[OSTree](https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) based operating systems like

[Fedora CoreOS](https://coreos.fedoraproject.org/) and

[Silverblue](https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/). The intention of these

systems is to discourage installation of software on the host, and instead

install software as (or in) containers — they mostly don't even have package

managers like DNF or YUM. This makes it difficult to set up a development

environment or troubleshoot the operating system in the usual way.

Toolbox solves this problem by providing a fully mutable container within

which one can install their favourite development and troubleshooting tools,

editors and SDKs. For example, it's possible to do `yum install ansible`

without affecting the base operating system.

However, this tool doesn't *require* using an OSTree based system. It works

equally well on Fedora Workstation and Server, and that's a useful way to

incrementally adopt containerization.

The toolbox environment is based on an [OCI](https://www.opencontainers.org/)

image. On Fedora this is the `fedora-toolbox` image. This image is used to

create a toolbox container that offers the interactive command line

environment.

Note that Toolbox makes no promise about security beyond what's already

available in the usual command line environment on the host that everybody is

familiar with.

## Installation & Use

See our guides on

[installing & getting started](https://containertoolbx.org/install/) with

Toolbox and [Linux distro support](https://containertoolbx.org/distros/).