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coreos / toolbox

toolbox

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bring your tools with you

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-03-06 17:52:02 UTC to 2026-09-30 00:31:11 UTC.

012015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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thebeardisred·Nov 2, 2021
If by "toolboxes" you mean the original "CoreOS Toolbox" (https://github.com/coreos/toolbox) which was originally a bash script, now re-written in Go (https://github.com/containers/toolbox) that's very, very unfortunate. It should just be a user configuration. In the original we defaulted to the latest Fedora image (yes, even in the days of CoreOS... blame me for that), but allowed the user to override this with an environment variable (and later a `.toolboxrc` file in their home directory). Thus, IMHO, this is a regression. Now it seems the new stewards are trying to be "clever" and protect you from yourself, creating "foot-guns" in the process. According to the docs (https://github.com/containers/toolbox#image-requirements): Since Toolbox only works with OCI images that fulfill certain requirements, it will refuse images that ar
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en't tagged with com.github.containers.toolbox="true" and com.github.debarshiray.toolbox="true" labels. These labels are meant to be used by the maintainer of the image to indicate that they have read this document and tested that the image works with Toolbox. You can use the following snippet in a Dockerfile for this: LABEL com.github.containers.toolbox="true" edit: I forgot part of my point: This is a regression from the original utility.
In Fedora 35
navaati·May 9, 2018
Hi. There is a wonderful little piece of CoreOS that is toolbox[0]. It's not available on Atomic Host. Yes I could install it easily but the point of toolbox is to avoid installing anything on the host system in the first place ! It could easily be forgotten on the side of the road while doing the CoreOS/Atomic fusion work. So I'm asking you, can you salvage this and integrate it pretty please :) ? [0] https://github.com/coreos/toolbox
In Roadmap for CoreOS Integration with Red Hat OpenShift
vmatekole·Mar 6, 2015Submission

Managing CoreOS with Ansible

Hi, Is this article relevant given toolbox - https://github.com/coreos/toolbox. As I understand it toolbox can provision Python to a host too e.g. toolbox --bind=/home:/home python "$@". This method would be preferred as toolbox is available out-of-the-box and avoids additional installs. I have attempted to use - https://github.com/tazjin/coreos-ansible as an example. However, I get complaints of the interpreter not being available.
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