oharan2 / distrobox-fedora

Create a Fedora container via distrobox why is this good for

Seamlessly integrates with the rest of the operating system by providing access to the user's home directory,
the Wayland and X11 sockets, networking, removable devices (like USB sticks), systemd journal,
SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc...

Image includes:

Via pip:

• pipenv
• poetry
• pre-commit
• git-review
• tox
• ipython
• ipdb
• docker

Via dnf:

• zsh
• sshpass
• git
• wget
• vim
• neovim
• tmux
• origin-clients (oc)
• awscli
• ocm-cli
• bash-insulter :)
• kubectl
• rosa

Requirements

ansible: install using package manager

GitHub cli: install via sudo dnf install gh

Installation

Clone the repository and install Ansible community plugins:

git clone https://github.com/myk-org/distrobox-fedora.git
cd distrobox-fedora
ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

Create the box

ansible-playbook -K fedora-distro-box.yml --extra-vars "home=<user home dir> user=<user name> box_name=<box name (default is distrobox-fedora)>"

where home will be the home directory for the user inside the box and user should be the current login user

Usage

distrobox-enter distrobox-fedora # Or the name of the box if passed in the command

vim Usage

vim uses LazyVim

Tips

To enter automatically configure your terminal to exec distrobox-enter distrobox-fedora on each new shell Inside the box $HOME will be the box home (under distrobox/) and the local user home is $HOST_HOME To execute command on the host from the box run distrobox-host-exec <command>