<![CDATA[Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year.]]>Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year.

I rebuilt my mastogreet bot on top of registry.access.redhat.com/hi/python, the new distroless Python image catalog from Project Hummingbird:

no shell
no package manager
signed SBOMs
chunked OCI layers
one surprisingly sharp UID footgun

The image only shrank ~10%, which turns out to be the least interesting part.

I wrote up the rebuild, the operational differences, and where Fedora Hummingbird Linux and Red Hat Hardened Images fit into the picture.

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Fedora Hummingbird: Distroless, Container-Native Linux and a Slim mastogreet

Fedora Hummingbird brings the distroless container model to a full, image-based rolling operating system, and it ships a catalog of hardened language images ...

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Larvitz Blog (blog.hofstede.it)

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For most builds, we anticipate users using a multi-stage build using a builder image, followed by a non-builder. Since the builder images contain a shell, you shouldn't need to use the `RUN ["echo", "hello"]` syntax - the regular `RUN echo hello` would work in the build stage.

We're working on minimising the images further too, including removing a bunch of tools used for managing certificates (which rely on Bash and are since broken) on the non-builders.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/RobertSturla/statuses/116584849152612184https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/RobertSturla/statuses/116584849152612184Sat, 16 May 2026 15:00:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year. on Sat, 16 May 2026 14:39:45 GMT]]>@Larvitz Thanks, was just curious. Some sentences sound very LLM-ish but also didn’t seem slopified enough at the same time. Unfortunately, all models seem to leak that distinct writing style for even simple edits.

Good read either way, unsure it or changes much over UBI besides faux community sticker. I guess it’s an answer to Chainguard images if to anything.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/barthalion/statuses/116584768201192414https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/barthalion/statuses/116584768201192414Sat, 16 May 2026 14:39:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year. on Sat, 16 May 2026 14:36:41 GMT]]>@barthalion I write my blog posts myself, but use a small local LLM (Ministral 14B from Mistral on my laptop) to enhance the style and grammar when writing in English, which is a foreign language for me. I use AI to give the text an editorial pass before publishing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116584756129393927https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116584756129393927Sat, 16 May 2026 14:36:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year. on Sat, 16 May 2026 14:35:19 GMT]]>@Larvitz Did you use LLM when writing your post?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/barthalion/statuses/116584750749840535https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/barthalion/statuses/116584750749840535Sat, 16 May 2026 14:35:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year. on Sat, 16 May 2026 12:29:50 GMT]]>@cpy I work on the server right now and broke something .. Should be back ASAP.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116584257326818768https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://burningboard.net/users/Larvitz/statuses/116584257326818768Sat, 16 May 2026 12:29:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year. on Sat, 16 May 2026 12:29:20 GMT]]>@Larvitz Link seems broken for me. Connection failed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/cpy/statuses/116584255382248049https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/cpy/statuses/116584255382248049Sat, 16 May 2026 12:29:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fedora Hummingbird is one of the more interesting things to come out of the container world this year. on Sat, 16 May 2026 11:18:55 GMT]]>@Larvitz redhat has a bad rep in general so they can't lead all that well - they are basically all for profit so it helps but also hurts their own efforts, in short, nobody gives a shit, they are out for themselves

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