Noel Miller
Noel Miller
Noel Miller is a Systems Administrator, Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, and the Project Manager at Universal Blue.
He has been working in IT for a little over 10 years, with most of his career being focused on Small and Medium Size businesses. He recently joined Red Hat as a Technical Account Manager with a focus on Ansible.
He is the Project Manager and a Core Contributor at Universal Blue. Universal Blue builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers.
Outside of his IT endeavors, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, heavy metal music, and playing guitar.
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Session
Topics
- What is Universal Blue?
- How does Universal Blue build images?
- Advantages of the Atomic Model
- Challenges of the Atomic Model
- Examples of Using the Atomic Model
- Bazzite
- Bluefin / Aurora
- uCore
- How downstream projects improve Fedora
- Why is building on Fedora Atomic the future?
What is Universal Blue?
The Universal Blue project builds custom Fedora Atomic images via OCI/Docker containers. This is a feature that is not yet in mainline Fedora. One of the reasons the project was started was to test and validate this method of distribution and modification as a way to experiment with this new model to see if it is viable.
The project also publishes a diverse set of base images and tooling for users to develop their own custom images.
We will also cover how the project plans to accelerate "Fedora Strategy 2028".
Why should you come to this talk?
If you enjoy the following:
- See what is possible when using Fedora Atomic.
- Lessons learned from Universal Blue that would be beneficial to the Fedora project:
- Tooling lessons
- Community patterns that we have observed
- Recommendations for Fedora's base images
- Infrastructure lessons learned
- Live demo of Bazzite (based on Fedora Atomic) running on a Steam Deck OLED
- Live demo of a workflow building a whole new custom image!