LFX Platform

Know more about LFX Platform

LFX Insights

Linux Image Build Tools

Tools for creating, customizing, and generating Linux distribution images for various hardware platforms.

15 projects

14,838 contributors

$950M

Yocto Project

The Yocto Project (YP) is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture.

Contributors

5,355

Organizations

1,823

Software value

$16M

SONiC Foundation

SONiC is an open source network operating system based on Linux that runs on switches from multiple vendors and ASICs. SONiC offers a full-suite of network functionality, like BGP and RDMA, that has been production-hardened in the data centers of some of the largest cloud-service providers.

Contributors

5,264

Organizations

719

Software value

$598M

Armbian Linux Build Framework

A build framework and toolchain for creating customized Armbian Linux distributions, enabling users to compile optimized operating system images for various ARM and RISC-V based single board computers and devices

Contributors

2,456

Organizations

380

Software value

$116M

mkosi

mkosi is a tool for generating disk images containing Linux operating system installations. It creates bootable OS images with customizable configurations, packages, and filesystems, supporting multiple distribution targets like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and others. The tool integrates well with systemd and is designed for both development and production use cases.

Contributors

687

Organizations

256

Software value

$935K

Archived

sealer

Seal your applications all dependencies and kubernetes into CloudImage! Build Deliver and Run user-defined clusters in one command.

Contributors

397

Organizations

72

Software value

$101M

apko

apko is a tool for building OCI container images using Alpine Linux packages, enabling the creation of minimal, reproducible container images with declarative configuration. It focuses on security and reproducibility by allowing users to specify exact package versions and dependencies.

Contributors

293

Organizations

111

Software value

$1.2M

OSBuild Composer

OSBuild Composer is an image building service that orchestrates the creation of custom operating system images. It provides a REST API and command-line interface to define, compose, and build custom Linux OS images across various output formats and cloud platforms, working as the API and composition layer of the OSBuild system.

Contributors

244

Organizations

64

Software value

$117M

OMAP Image Builder

A tool for building bootable Linux system images for OMAP-based devices like BeagleBone and other TI processor boards. It automates the process of creating customized embedded Linux distributions and bootloader configurations.

Contributors

125

Organizations

43

Software value

$336K

Cayo

Cayo is a project focused on building and managing custom Linux images using containerization technology, particularly for immutable operating systems. It appears to be part of the ublue-os ecosystem which specializes in creating and maintaining containerized Linux desktop solutions.

Contributors

17

Organizations

9

Software value

$29K

Facebook OpenBMC Linux Framework

OpenBMC is an open software framework to build a complete Linux image for a Board Management Controller (BMC).

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Image Builder

Tools for building Kubernetes disk images

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

OpenEmbedded-Core

The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.
Looking for a project that’s not listed?