I got into Tinycore this summer. Useful complement to the security
philosophy "One OS, one function" which is kinda the thing behind
Qubes, Tails and Whonix we talked about here a few days ago.
It's so light, you can spin up VMs, one for a mail-server, one for a
database, one for a firewall/router, each in a couple of seconds.
Tinycore is itself immutable, so you add a vdisk with a "package" and
some config, mark it read-only, and job done. A single Virsh script
handles the startup and shutdown of "services" - each being a Tinycore
instance. Fun, and robust so far, but not sure if I'd put it into
anyone's production just yet.
Yeah TinyCore is always missing from these intros to immutable Linux… it’s been around a while and has a great design (though the implementation leaves some to be desired, and probably has no corporate backing to explain people not knowing about it…)
It’s solid and simple, unlike these other immutable Linux distros
It's so light, you can spin up VMs, one for a mail-server, one for a database, one for a firewall/router, each in a couple of seconds.
Tinycore is itself immutable, so you add a vdisk with a "package" and some config, mark it read-only, and job done. A single Virsh script handles the startup and shutdown of "services" - each being a Tinycore instance. Fun, and robust so far, but not sure if I'd put it into anyone's production just yet.