NAME

       toolbox - Tool for containerized command line environments on Linux

SYNOPSIS

       toolbox [--assumeyes | -y]
               [--help | -h]
               [--log-level LEVEL]
               [--log-podman]
               [--verbose | -v]
               COMMAND [ARGS...]

DESCRIPTION

       Toolbox  is  a  tool  for  Linux  operating systems, which allows the use of containerized
       command line environments. It is built on top  of  Podman  and  other  standard  container
       technologies from OCI.

       This  is  particularly  useful  on  OSTree  based operating systems like Fedora CoreOS and
       Silverblue. The intention of these systems is to discourage installation  of  software  on
       the host, and instead install software as (or in) containers — they mostly don't even have
       package managers like DNF or YUM.  This  makes  it  difficult  to  set  up  a  development
       environment or install tools for debugging in the usual way.

       Toolbox  solves  this  problem by providing a fully mutable container within which one can
       install their favourite development and debugging tools, editors and  SDKs.  For  example,
       it's possible to do yum install ansible without affecting the base operating system.

       However,  this tool doesn't require using an OSTree based system. It works equally well on
       Fedora  Workstation  and  Server,  and  that's  a  useful  way  to   incrementally   adopt
       containerization.

       The  toolbox  environment  is  based on an OCI image. On Fedora this is the fedora-toolbox
       image. This image is used to create a toolbox container that  seamlessly  integrates  with
       the  rest  of  the  operating system by providing access to the user's home directory, the
       Wayland and X11  sockets,  networking  (including  Avahi),  removable  devices  (like  USB
       sticks), systemd journal, SSH agent, D-Bus, ulimits, /dev and the udev database, etc..

Supported operating system distributions

       By  default, Toolbox tries to use an image matching the host operating system distribution
       for creating containers. If the host is not supported, then it  falls  back  to  a  Fedora
       image. Supported host operating systems are:

              • Fedora

              • Red Hat Enterprise Linux >= 8.5

       However,  it's  possible to create containers for a different distribution through the use
       of the --distro and --release options that are accepted by the relevant commands, or their
       counterparts  in  the  configuration  file.  The  --distro  flag specifies the name of the
       distribution, and --release specifies its version. Supported combinations are:

       ┌───────┬────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │Distro │ Release                                │
       ├───────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │fedora │ <release> or f<release> eg., 35 or f35 │
       ├───────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │rhel   │ <major>.<minor> eg., 8.5               │
       └───────┴────────────────────────────────────────┘

GLOBAL OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       --assumeyes, -y

       Automatically answer yes for all questions.

       --help, -h

       Print a synopsis of this manual and exit.

       --log-level=level

       Log messages above specified level: debug, info, warn, error,  fatal  or  panic  (default:
       error)

       --log-podman

       Show  log messages of invocations of Podman based on the logging level specified by option
       log-level.

       --verbose, -v

       Same as --log-level=debug. Use -vv to include --log-podman.

COMMANDS

       Commands for working with toolbox containers and images:

       toolbox-create(1)

       Create a new toolbox container.

       toolbox-enter(1)

       Enter a toolbox container for interactive use.

       toolbox-help(1)

       Display help information about Toolbox.

       toolbox-init-container(1)

       Initialize a running container.

       toolbox-list(1)

       List existing toolbox containers and images.

       toolbox-rm(1)

       Remove one or more toolbox containers.

       toolbox-rmi(1)

       Remove one or more toolbox images.

       toolbox-run(1)

       Run a command in an existing toolbox container.

FILES

       toolbox.conf(5)

       Toolbox configuration file.

SEE ALSO

       podman(1), https://github.com/containers/toolbox

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