Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers
Summary
The article documents the author's move to immutable infrastructure using bootable containers with bootc, exploring alternatives like Poudriere, mkosi, and FreeBSD. It provides a detailed, step-by-step account of building and updating bootable OS images, configuring SSH access, TLS certificate automation, and deploying services via Podman quadlets. It also assesses tooling trade-offs and includes an example repository for self-hosted websites.