https://giacomodiclerico.com/en/tags/bootc/Recent content in Bootc on Giacomo Di ClericoHugoen-usTue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://giacomodiclerico.com/en/blog/server-bootc-to-nixos/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://giacomodiclerico.com/en/blog/server-bootc-to-nixos/<p>I recently migrated my homelab server from a <strong>bootc</strong> (bootable container) setup on Fedora to <strong>NixOS</strong>. The trigger wasn&rsquo;t philosophical — it was a real breakage caused by the iptables/nft transition and Fedora&rsquo;s kernel policy.</p> <hr> <h2 id="the-bootc-setup">The bootc setup</h2> <p><strong>bootc</strong> is a model where your entire OS is defined as an OCI container image. You write a <code>Containerfile</code>, build the image, push it to a registry, and the server pulls and boots from it. It&rsquo;s immutable infrastructure taken to its logical extreme — your OS has a CI/CD pipeline.</p>