Photon RPM OSTree: a simple guide

• Introduction
  • RPM-OSTree Overview
  • Why use RPM-OSTree in Photon?
  • Photon with RPM-OSTree installation profiles
  • Terminology
  • Sample code
  • How to read this book
  • RPM-OSTree in Photon OS 3.0
• Installing a Photon RPM-OSTree host against default server repository
  • Who is this for?
  • Installing the ISO, step by step
• Concepts in action
  • Querying the deployed filetrees
  • Bootable filetree version
  • Commit ID
  • OSname
  • Refspec
  • Deployments
• Querying for commit, file and package metadata
  • Commit history
  • Listing file mappings
  • Listing configuration changes
  • Listing packages
  • Querying for package details
  • Why am I unable to install, update or delete packages?
• Host updating operations
  • Upgrade Overview
  • Incremental upgrade
  • Listing file differences
  • Listing package differences
  • Rollback
  • Installing Packages
  • Uninstalling Packages
  • Deleting a deployed filetree
  • Version skipping upgrade
  • Tracking parent commits
  • Resetting a branch to a previous commit
• Creating a Server
  • Composing your first OSTree repo
• Installing a Photon RPM-OStree host against a custom server repository
  • Manual install of a custom host
  • Automated install of a custom host via kickstart
• Automatic Updates
  • Enable Automatic Updates
• File oriented server operations
  • Starting a fresh OSTree repo
  • Creating summary metadata
• Package oriented server operations
  • JSON configuration file
  • Package addition, removal, upgrade
  • RPMS repository
  • Composing a tree
  • Automatic version prefix
  • Installing package updates
  • Creating server metadata
  • Starting a fresh OSTree repo
• Remotes
  • Listing remotes
  • GPG signature verification
  • Switching repositories
  • Adding and removing remotes
  • List available branches
• Running container applications between bootable images
  • Downloading a docker container appliance
    • Rebooting into an existing image
    • Reboot into a newly created image
• Install or rebase to Photon OS 3.0
  • Composing your own RPM-OSTree Server
  • Installing an RPM-OSTree host
  • Rebasing a host from Photon 1.0 to 3.0
  • Creating a host raw image