Running into a hiccup with the 7-day Kubernetes guide (using Fedora Atomic)

I’ve been working through the 7-day Kubernetes guide and hit a small roadblock with Fedora Atomic desktops. The issue is that `dnf install` doesn’t work on these systems, and layering packages with `rpm-ostree` would slow down future updates significantly.

# Background: Why I switched to Fedora Atomic

Like Mischa, I recently ditched the classic Linux environment for Fedora’s Atomic OS. I was inspired by his approach of treating a personal laptop like production-grade infrastructure. Instead of Silverblue, I went with Fedora Atomic Sway to challenge myself with a tiling window manager and boost my productivity.

Now I’m running an immutable OS and learning to containerize everything. Mischa explains the philosophy really well in this video: https://youtu.be/gxWgceGx5Os?si=7cb1LoFmRF3k9mV3

# My solution: Rancher Desktop in Toolbox

I wanted to give back to the community, so I figured out how to run Rancher Desktop on Fedora Atomic without using `rpm-ostree` layering (there’s no flatpak available either). The trick is using the toolbox containers that ship with Fedora.

I’ve written up the full guide here: https://dev.to/noorlatif/run-rancher-desktop-on-fedora-atomic-desktops-toolbox-container-method-9oi

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