Share examples to help onboard new users

[deboer-tim]

Epic domain

Make it as easy as possible for users to create bootable containers, starting with a curated list of examples or "recipes". For instance, examples for building images for databases, a virt host, etc.

There is already a repository that we may be able to leverage for this: https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/examples

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[cdrage]

@deboer-tim

Some follow up issues after #895 but unsure if it's in the scope?

• Need more examples (we only have 3 "good" ones from Fedora) from fedora examples page
• RHEL examples (and disclaimer that have to have a red hat subscription to pull / use them?)
• Upstream README's are lacking (https://gitlab.com/fedora/bootc/examples/-/issues/19)
• We need arm64 examples

What else should we have?

[castrojo]

I was just trying to build a custom image this evening and have some ideas! The httpd, tailscale, and other httpd examples are pretty "appdeveloper cloud person" oriented. I was thinking from the other direction, highlighting the operating system since that's a killer feature in bootc. I was thinking something like grouping them into use cases:

- CentOS9 server
- CentOS9 Kubernetes Node
- CentOS10 Instruclab Workshop 
- CentOS9 Home Server  
- Fedora rPI Digital Sign
- ... and so on
 
- Fedora Silverblue desktop
- Fedora Kinoite desktop
- HeliumOS Workstation
- Bluefin Workstation
- ... and so on 

And then you FROM the usual barebones image, but then recommend some groups to install that match those use cases, and then leave a little boilerplate for "Add your packages here!". Then these examples automatically become useful to homelabbers and enthusiasts. And then if appropriate add images from orgs in ADOPTERS.md, and maybe having those orgs in the examples directory will incentivize them to submit their logo. 😄

[cdrage]

I was just trying to build a custom image this evening and have some ideas! The httpd, tailscale, and other httpd examples are pretty "appdeveloper cloud person" oriented. I was thinking from the other direction, highlighting the operating system since that's a killer feature in bootc. I was thinking something like grouping them into use cases:

- CentOS9 server
- CentOS9 Kubernetes Node
- CentOS10 Instruclab Workshop 
- CentOS9 Home Server  
- Fedora rPI Digital Sign
- ... and so on
 
- Fedora Silverblue desktop
- Fedora Kinoite desktop
- HeliumOS Workstation
- Bluefin Workstation
- ... and so on 

And then you FROM the usual barebones image, but then recommend some groups to install that match those use cases, and then leave a little boilerplate for "Add your packages here!". Then these examples automatically become useful to homelabbers and enthusiasts. And then if appropriate add images from orgs in ADOPTERS.md, and maybe having those orgs in the examples directory will incentivize them to submit their logo. 😄

That would be awesome and would love to add that.

Only problem is that we have to make sure these are hosted somewhere as we are pulling them :)

If it's a maintained quay / docker hub location, I totally don't mind adding some from the community! Would be awesome having graphical OS's as well (would love bazzite to be bootc-compatible one day...)