Kevin Dubois & Cedric Clyburn

Bootable AI Containers with Podman Desktop

What if you could solve dependency hell by packaging your entire OS, AI model, and app into a single, bootable container image?

Bootable AI Containers with Podman Desktop
#1about 3 minutes

Introducing bootable containers and the CNCF donation

An overview of the session's agenda and the announcement of Red Hat's container tools, including bootable containers, being donated to the CNCF.

#2about 4 minutes

Solving OS management challenges with bootable containers

Bootable containers apply the immutable, standardized principles of application containers to entire operating systems to prevent configuration drift.

#3about 3 minutes

The workflow for deploying and updating bootable systems

A container file is used to build a bootable image, which is then converted to a disk image for deployment and can be updated by pulling a new version from a registry.

#4about 4 minutes

Building a bootable OS image with a container file

The `bootc` tool manages updates and rollbacks, while a container file defines the OS layers, packages, and applications, and you can even build a custom base image.

#5about 3 minutes

Why bootable containers are ideal for AI and ML stacks

Packaging AI/ML stacks as bootable containers solves dependency issues and allows models to run closer to the hardware for faster inference.

#6about 2 minutes

Simplifying the build process with Podman Desktop

Podman Desktop and its extensions provide a user-friendly interface to build a bootable container image and export it to various disk formats.

#7about 5 minutes

Demo: Developing a local AI code assistant application

A demonstration of building and running a Python-based AI code generation application as a standard container using the Podman Desktop AI Lab extension.

#8about 7 minutes

Demo: Packaging the AI app as a bootable container

The AI application is packaged into a bootable CentOS Stream image using a container file that includes the model, server, and systemd services.

Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Matching moments

Building a bootable Linux OS with a containerfile
03:26 MIN

Building a bootable Linux OS with a containerfile

Enterprise Linux as Container Images

Using BootC to build Linux system images like containers
02:02 MIN

Using BootC to build Linux system images like containers

Simplifying edge app delivery: one workflow, thousands of devices

Deploying OS container images to any target platform
02:35 MIN

Deploying OS container images to any target platform

Enterprise Linux as Container Images

Red Hat tools for cross-platform consistency
02:07 MIN

Red Hat tools for cross-platform consistency

Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Core benefits of the Podman container engine
04:32 MIN

Core benefits of the Podman container engine

Containers and Kubernetes made easy: Deep dive into Podman Desktop and new AI capabilities

Applying containerization and immutable OS concepts to cars
05:52 MIN

Applying containerization and immutable OS concepts to cars

The best of two worlds - Bringing enterprise-grade Linux to the vehicle

Demonstrating the business value of containerization
02:01 MIN

Demonstrating the business value of containerization

Using Containers to deploy AI Models across our microscopy platform

Prototyping AI applications locally with Podman AI Lab
09:38 MIN

Prototyping AI applications locally with Podman AI Lab

Supercharge your cloud-native applications with Generative AI

Featured Partners

Related Videos

See all videos
Enterprise Linux as Container Images20:00

Enterprise Linux as Container Images

Goetz Rieger

Containers and Kubernetes made easy: Deep dive into Podman Desktop and new AI capabilities32:19

Containers and Kubernetes made easy: Deep dive into Podman Desktop and new AI capabilities

Stevan Le Meur

Compose the Future: Building Agentic Applications, Made Simple with Docker50:09

Compose the Future: Building Agentic Applications, Made Simple with Docker

Mark Cavage, Tushar Jain, Jim Clark & Yunong Xiao

What's (new) with Spring Boot and Containers?29:14

What's (new) with Spring Boot and Containers?

Eva Panadero & maeddes

Simplifying edge app delivery: one workflow, thousands of devices19:01

Simplifying edge app delivery: one workflow, thousands of devices

Christian Koep

Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux14:00

Develop on Windows, Deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ben Breard

Supercharge your cloud-native applications with Generative AI32:13

Supercharge your cloud-native applications with Generative AI

Cedric Clyburn

From Code to Motion: Building an Autonomous Hat-Hunting Robot with Kubernetes & ML30:58

From Code to Motion: Building an Autonomous Hat-Hunting Robot with Kubernetes & ML

Daniel Brintzinger

Related Articles

View all articles
DC
Daniel Cranney
Why Attend a Developer Event?
Modern software engineering moves too fast for documentation alone. Attending a world-class event is about shifting from tactical execution to strategic leadership. Skill Diversification: Break out of your specific tech stack to see how the industry...
Why Attend a Developer Event?
DC
Daniel Cranney
Dev Digest 205: AI vs. OSS, Hidden ChatGPT Features, Linux in a PDF
Inside last week’s Dev Digest 205 . 😔 The end of the curl bug bounty 📝 Agent Skills vs. Rules vs. Commands 💬 The best hidden ChatGPT features 📅 Weaponising calendar invites 🟪 CSS in 2026 🐍 Python numbers you should know 👨‍💻 The Github Copilot SDK 💻 ...
Dev Digest 205: AI vs. OSS, Hidden ChatGPT Features, Linux in a PDF

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Devops Container Engineer

Devops Container Engineer

Softwarezentrum Böblingen/Sindelfingen e.V.
Böblingen, Germany

Remote
Intermediate
GIT
Bash
Azure
Linux
+5