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title: "Elemental toolkit"
description: "Immutable Linux Derivatives at your fingertips"
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Elemental toolkit allows to maintain custom Linux derivatives in a GitOps style with container registries. Upgrade machines from container images in OTA style - manually or automatically within kubernetes. A common featureset shared between Elemental derivatives, completely pluggable. derivatives built with Elemental are single container image OS that are bootable from a system. They follow an A/B update style and gets upgrades from regular container registries.Immutable Linux Derivatives at your fingertips
Elemental is a toolkit to build, ship and maintain cloud-init driven Linux derivatives with containers..
Great For
Embedded
Appliances
Edge
True DevOps
Why Use Elemental toolkit ?
Built for DevOps
Operational Happiness
Bring your own OS
Single Image OS
That’s it! With just a few commands, you have your own custom OS.