Integrate Sysbox as container runtime

[qdrop17]

We're interested in containerizing various workflows of our development into containers (not VMs!). But a lot of solutions we're using are reliant on systemd. This on the other hand has dependencies which are not natively covered by Docker.

https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox solves this dilemma and would enable far more capable (more native-like) Distroboxes while still leveraging the lightweightness of containers.

One could launch an almost native-like container inside a Distrobox.

It has a strong isolation still which would also help with #28

[89luca89]

Very interesting! Didn't know of it, very cool!

I think you already can use it by using the --additional-flags to specify the runtime (--additional-flags "--runtime=sysbox-runc" )

Also, chrck initful container, they should be mostly the same

distrobox create --init --additional packages systemd --image registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/distrobox:latest

That will create a container with systemd running as pid1 inside. Install docker and run it, you'll have a very similar result 👍

[qdrop17]

nice, that's great. It's basically a super lightweight VM now :-)

[89luca89]

@qdrop17
With the latest commit, using --unshare-all --init will provide an isolation quite similar to what sysbox or lxc does
Let me know if there is missing stuff!