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OS Image Deployment Tools

Tools for managing immutable OS images and enabling atomic, versioned system and container upgrades.

37 projects

34,018 contributors

$1.6B

Packer

Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

Contributors

9,285

Organizations

2,688

Software value

$2.9M

DietPi

Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!

Contributors

3,653

Organizations

394

Software value

$1.6M

Rufus

Rufus is a utility that helps create bootable USB drives from ISO images, particularly useful for installing operating systems. It supports various formats and provides a simple interface for formatting and creating bootable media.

Contributors

2,820

Organizations

292

Software value

$5.5M

Talos Linux

Talos Linux is a modern, minimal, and immutable Linux distribution designed specifically for running Kubernetes. It is built to be secure, automated, and maintainable with features like atomic updates, declarative configuration, and API-driven management.

Contributors

2,369

Organizations

882

Software value

$18M

OpenShift Installer

The OpenShift Installer is a tool that automates the deployment and configuration of OpenShift Container Platform clusters across different infrastructure providers. It handles the provisioning of required infrastructure components and installation of the OpenShift platform, enabling users to set up production-ready Kubernetes clusters.

Contributors

2,034

Organizations

325

Software value

$1.4B

iPXE

iPXE network bootloader

Contributors

1,411

Organizations

296

Software value

$15M

Bento

Packer templates for building minimal Vagrant baseboxes for multiple platforms

Contributors

1,082

Organizations

411

Software value

$412K

Open Build Service (OBS)

The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute software packages from sources in an automatic, consistent, and reproducible way. It can create packages for various distributions and architectures, handling dependencies and providing a collaborative platform for package maintenance.

Contributors

1,022

Organizations

268

Software value

$32M

Anaconda

Anaconda is the Linux system installer used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and other Linux distributions. It handles operating system installation tasks including partitioning, package management, and system configuration during the installation process.

Contributors

1,000

Organizations

122

Software value

$4.7M

netboot.xyz

Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.

Contributors

999

Organizations

262

Software value

$298K

PSAppDeployToolkit

PowerShell Application Deployment Toolkit (PSADT) is a framework that provides a set of functions to perform common application deployment tasks and handle application installations in an enterprise environment. It simplifies the complex process of deploying applications in Active Directory environments while providing a consistent deployment experience for end users.

Contributors

948

Organizations

35

Software value

$11M

Bluefin

Bluefin is an immutable Fedora-based operating system optimized for desktop and development use, featuring automated updates, layered customization, and cloud-native technologies. It provides a curated collection of tools and configurations for developers while maintaining system reliability through atomic updates.

Contributors

914

Organizations

198

Software value

$75K

Snapcraft

Package, distribute, and update any app for Linux and IoT.

Contributors

853

Organizations

209

Software value

$5.4M

LinuxKit

LinuxKit is a toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers. It allows users to create custom, minimal Linux distributions that are optimized for running containers, with a focus on security, immutability, and minimal footprint.

Contributors

734

Organizations

287

Software value

$113M

osado

openQA web-frontend, scheduler and tools.

Contributors

713

Organizations

55

Software value

$16M

libostree

libostree is a hybrid system that combines a git-style content-addressed object store with extended attributes for bootable filesystem trees. It provides atomic upgrades, rollbacks, and immutable roots for Linux-based operating systems.

Contributors

692

Organizations

225

Software value

$3.7M

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

689

Organizations

256

Software value

$935K

KIWI Next Generation

KIWI - Appliance Builder Next Generation

Contributors

506

Organizations

97

Software value

$3.4M

Kairos

Kairos is an immutable Linux meta-distribution and build system that creates customizable container-based operating systems. It enables automated installation, reproducible builds, and declarative configuration for edge, cloud, and IoT environments.

Contributors

491

Organizations

138

Software value

$7.7M

Tinkerbell

Tinkerbell is a bare metal provisioning engine, built and maintained by the team at Equinix Metal.

Contributors

476

Organizations

156

Software value

$8.4M

Aurora

Aurora is a delightful KDE desktop experience for end-users that are looking for reliability and developers for the most-hassle free setup. Zero maintenance included.

Contributors

331

Organizations

63

Software value

$71K

Lorax

Lorax is a tool for creating bootable media, system images, and installers. It generates bootable ISO files, cloud images, and other deployment artifacts from RPM packages, supporting both traditional bare metal installations and cloud/container use cases.

Contributors

308

Organizations

100

Software value

$1.5M

OpenShift Node Image

Fedora CoreOS is a Linux Foundation project that provides an automatically updating, minimal operating system designed for running containerized workloads securely and at scale.

Contributors

235

Organizations

36

Software value

$27K

OSBuild

Build-Pipelines for Operating System Artifacts

Contributors

227

Organizations

60

Software value

$11M

Mender

Mender is an open source over-the-air (OTA) software update manager for embedded Linux devices and IoT. It enables secure and reliable remote software updates, providing features like atomic deployments, rollback capabilities, and device fleet management.

Contributors

209

Organizations

39

Software value

$1.8M

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

AlmaLinux

The AlmaLinux project mirrors configuration and tools.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

Boot2Container

Boot and upgrade via container images

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.
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