Security Analyst – Jeff Soehner CISSP, GXPN,GPYC,GMOB,GCIH

Hey folks – Merry Xmas.

For those of you playing with the windows subsystem for Linux, I wanted to share a great recipe and the steps required for baking your very own Xmas Fedora Docker running on WSL. It makes a great holiday gift to share with your friends and family (because who doesn’t use containers these days!)

1. Download your new base image from Koji at https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=26387 

 2. Carefully open the package and extract the file called layer.tar 

 3. Mix well for a few seconds (here we have renamed the layer.tar file and used ‘fedora39’ as the image name but you may adapt this ‘to your own taste’

 4. Bake in the oven for a few minutes (here we start the distro, perform an update and then install systemd)

  5. Decorate it with a custom file to activate systemd and let it cool down (restart)

  6. Package your cake with the following items (dnf-plugins-core)

  7. Add the docker community repository for docker binaries and install the following components (docker-ce, docker-ce-cli containerd.io, docker-buildx-plugin and docker-compose-plugin)

That is it – Serve to friends and family!

Happy Holidays to all my readers and thanks for a great year!