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Episode: container-snap: Atomic Updates from OCI Images using Podman’s Btrfs Driver (asg2025)
Description: Traditional package updates using tools like RPM or Zypper can introduce risks, such as incomplete updates or accidentally breaking the running system. To overcome these challenges, we developed **container-snap**, a prototype plugin designed to deliver atomic OS updates—updates that are fully applied or rolled back without compromising the system's state.
container-snap leverages OCI images as the source for updates and integrates seamlessly with openSUSE’s [tukit](https://github.com/openSUSE/transactional-update) to enable transactional OS updates. By utilizing Podman’s btrfs storage driver, it creates btrfs subvolumes directly from OCI images, allowing systems to boot from the OCI image. This a...