joemiller/toolbox repository overview

⁠joemiller/toolbox

My CoreOS Toolbox docker image⁠. Contains various diagnostic tools for debugging CoreOS Container Linux⁠, Google Container-Optimized OS⁠, or any similar (read-only root, containers-only) Linux environment.

A work in progress.

https://hub.docker.com/r/joemiller/toolbox/⁠

⁠Usage

To change the default settings, modify the /etc/default/toolbox file, or specify new values for the variables in ${HOME}/.toolboxrc:

echo "TOOLBOX_DOCKER_IMAGE=joemiller/toolbox" > "${HOME}/.toolboxrc"
echo "TOOLBOX_DOCKER_TAG=latest" >> "${HOME}/.toolboxrc"

Then, execute toolbox to download the image and spawn a shell.

Further details on customizing toolbox execution: https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/toolbox⁠

⁠TODO

• initial container build, based on google's toolbox, with a bunch of common diagnostic tools built in
• determine if this image is gonna be too big or not (how?)
  • maybe make an alpine based variant
• install non-deb tools:
  • docker (pick the best current method since our example is 3yr old)
  • runc (multiple versions?)
  • gcloud
  • kubectl
  • sysdig .. do we want it in right now?
  • go?
  • neovim
• get dotfiles working
• see if we can get SSH_AUTH_SOCK to work
• get neovim working in a decent enough way
• dev tools?
  • linters, etc, multiple langs.. go, python, ruby …
• setup CI/CD. At least a build+push of a new tag on master commit.

⁠references:

• I copied most of this to get started: https://hub.docker.com/r/ragnarb/toolbox/⁠
• Google's COS doc: https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/how-to/toolbox⁠