/tags/torcx/ Recent content in Torcx on Flatcar Container Linux Hugo en-us Copyright © The Flatcar Project Contributors. Copyright © Flatcar a Series of LF Projects, LLC. For website terms of use, trademark policy and other project policies please see <a href="https://lfprojects.org/policies/">lfprojects.org/policies</a>. Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:22:13 +0200 /blog/2023/12/extending-flatcar-say-goodbye-to-torcx-and-hello-to-systemd-sysext/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:22:13 +0200 /blog/2023/12/extending-flatcar-say-goodbye-to-torcx-and-hello-to-systemd-sysext/ <p>Flatcar is a minimal, immutable, image-based operating system for fully automated, zero-touch container infrastructure. It ships the bare minimum required for running containers at scale - and usually, the answer to questions like &ldquo;how do I install tool XYZ on Flatcar?&rdquo; is: &ldquo;run it in a container&rdquo;. Sometimes though, &ldquo;tool XYZ&rdquo; needs to operate close to the OS itself, and it&rsquo;s not feasible (or even outright impossible) to run it in a container. Good examples for such tools and applications are custom container runtimes like podman, complex control planes like Kubernetes, and vendor-specific programs like VMware&rsquo;s open-vm-tools that are only useful in specific environments.</p>