Bootc containers (https://github.com/containers/bootc) are one of the most interesting and promising news that are coming with RHEL 10 and it introduces a new way to manage and standardize your OS deployment and upgrades using container images. It will be a game-changer.

It reduces complexity across the enterprise by letting development, operations, and solution providers use the same container-native tools and techniques to manage everything from applications to the underlying OS, simplifying security and integrating the process of creating OS Images in your existing CI/CD workflows, allowing you to use the same logic for your application and your OS deployments.

During this session we will:

• Introduce RHEL Image Mode concepts and building blocks
• Identify the core use cases and benefits RHEL Image mode introduces
• Demonstrate live how easy it is to build, deploy and manage a system based on RHEL Image Mode

The open source landscape is vast and rich in interesting content, as well as the ecosystem where many projects have evolved into fully-fledged products known to us all and at enterprise level.

Its fascination can drive all of us at some point in our careers to want to contribute on an ongoing or sporadic basis to these projects or start our one, giving back a little of what the community has given us for our work, home lab or weekend fun.

In this lightning talk I would like to pique your curiosity by talking about the reasons for contributing or starting a project, myths to dispel and bring a concrete example of how a Sunday project can unknowingly become something surprisingly useful to others.