7-9 October, 2026 Prague, Czechia View More Details & Registration Important Note:Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
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While bootc has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last few years, we had been using a similar technology in production for over a decade. This timeline has given us long enough to go through the whole life-cycle of thousands of devices: initial provisioning, operating, delivering updates, and decommissioning.
Though our system is based on Yocto and Moby and specifically tailored for over 100 different (mostly edge/embedded) device types, it shares the same core principle of modern bootable container architecture: shipping the OS as a container image and configuring the init system to boot directly into it.
During the session, you will learn: * How to boot into a containerized rootfs. * How to manage state, persistent data, and OS updates via container registries over unstable networks. * Lessons learned from 10 years of using bootable containers on 100+ different edge hardware types.
Prerequisites: Attendees should have a general understanding of OCI containers, Dockerfiles, and container registries.
Michal is a member of the OS team at balena. With over 15 years experience of bootstrapping, maintaining and optimizing Linux distributions, he now maintains a Yocto-based OS tailored to run containers on edge devices.
