Container images for toolbx (and distrobox)

Community maintained container images to use with toolbx (GitHub). See containers/toolbox#1019 for the upstream discussion on the next steps to make those images more "official".

You can also use them wih distrobox. See the discussion in distrobox#544.

⚠️ Looking for Arch Linux, Fedora, RHEL and Ubuntu images? See below.

Available distributions and usage

You can find all images in the toolbx-images organization on Quay.io, or directly use the commands below:

• AlmaLinux with EPEL enabled by default:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/almalinux-toolbox:9
  $ toolbox enter almalinux-toolbox-9
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/almalinux-toolbox:8
  $ toolbox enter almalinux-toolbox-8
  

• Alpine Linux:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/alpine-toolbox:edge
  $ toolbox enter alpine-toolbox-edge
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/alpine-toolbox:3.21
  $ toolbox enter alpine-toolbox-3.21
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/alpine-toolbox:3.20
  $ toolbox enter alpine-toolbox-3.20
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/alpine-toolbox:3.19
  $ toolbox enter alpine-toolbox-3.19
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/alpine-toolbox:3.18
  $ toolbox enter alpine-toolbox-3.18
  

• Amazon Linux Note: Only Amazon Linux 2 comes with EPEL enabled by default:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/amazonlinux-toolbox:2023
  $ toolbox enter amazonlinux-toolbox-2023
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/amazonlinux-toolbox:2
  $ toolbox enter amazonlinux-toolbox-2
  

• CentOS (Stream) with EPEL enabled by default:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/centos-toolbox:stream10
  $ toolbox enter centos-toolbox-stream10
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/centos-toolbox:stream9
  $ toolbox enter centos-toolbox-stream9
  

• Debian:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:unstable
  $ toolbox enter debian-toolbox-unstable
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:testing
  $ toolbox enter debian-toolbox-testing
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:12
  $ toolbox enter debian-toolbox-12
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:11
  $ toolbox enter debian-toolbox-11
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:10
  $ toolbox enter debian-toolbox-10
  

• openSUSE:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/opensuse-toolbox:tumbleweed
  $ toolbox enter opensuse-toolbox-tumbleweed
  

• Rocky Linux with EPEL enabled by default:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/rockylinux-toolbox:9
  $ toolbox enter rockylinux-toolbox-9
  
  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/rockylinux-toolbox:8
  $ toolbox enter rockylinux-toolbox-8
  

• Wolfi:

  $ toolbox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/wolfi-toolbox:latest
  $ toolbox enter wolfi-toolbox-latest
  

Verifying sigstore container signatures with podman

How to configure sigstore signature verification in podman:

$ sudo mkdir /etc/pki/containers
$ curl -O "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toolbx-images/images/main/quay.io-toolbx-images.pub"
$ sudo cp quay.io-toolbx-images.pub /etc/pki/containers/
$ sudo restorecon -RFv /etc/pki/containers

$ cat /etc/containers/registries.d/quay.io-toolbx-images.yaml
docker:
  quay.io/toolbx-images:
    use-sigstore-attachments: true
$ sudo restorecon -RFv /etc/containers/registries.d/quay.io-toolbx-images.yaml

$ cat /etc/containers/policy.json
{
    "default": [
        {
            "type": "reject"
        }
    ],
    "transports": {
        "docker": {
            ...
            "quay.io/toolbx-images": [
                {
                    "type": "sigstoreSigned",
                    "keyPath": "/etc/pki/containers/quay.io-toolbx-images.pub",
                    "signedIdentity": {
                        "type": "matchRepository"
                    }
                }
            ],
            ...
            "": [
                {
                    "type": "insecureAcceptAnything"
                }
            ]
        },
        ...
    }
}
...

What about Arch Linux, Fedora, RHEL and Ubuntu images?

The Arch Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu images are now maintained as part of Toolbx (GitHub):

• Arch Linux (repo on Quay.io). Usage:

  $ toolbox create --distro arch
  $ toolbox enter arch-toolbox-latest
  

• Fedora (repo on registry.fedoraproject.org). Usage:

  # Example for Fedora 40
  $ toolbox create --distro fedora --release 40
  $ toolbox enter fedora-toolbox-40
  

• Ubuntu (repo on Quay.io). Usage:

  # Example for Ubuntu 24.04
  $ toolbox create --distro ubuntu --release 24.04
  $ toolbox enter ubuntu-toolbox-24.04
  

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Universal Base Image) images are now maintained by Red Hat and their sources are part of Toolbx (GitHub) (repo on registry.access.redhat.com for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. Usage:

# Example for RHEL 9.4
$ toolbox create --distro rhel --release 9.4
$ toolbox enter rhel-toolbox-9.4

License

See COPYING.