SMRTR ProgrammingFeb 19, 2026Hacker News

Self-hosting my websites using bootable containers

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Yorick Peterse migrated from Cloudflare to a self-hosted setup using bootc (bootable containers) for immutable infrastructure. After evaluating FreeBSD with Poudriere and mkosi, he chose bootc to build OS images from containers. The article provides a detailed walkthrough of creating bootable Fedora containers, managing SSH access, building disk images, and deploying to a Hetzner VPS for hosting static websites.

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