--- title: "Elemental toolkit" description: "Immutable Linux Derivatives at your fingertips" ---

# Immutable Linux Derivatives at your fingertips

#### Elemental is a toolkit to build, ship and maintain cloud-init driven Linux derivatives with containers..

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#### Great For

##### Embedded

##### Appliances

##### Edge

##### True DevOps

## Why Use Elemental toolkit ?

##### Built for DevOps

Elemental toolkit allows to maintain custom Linux derivatives in a GitOps style with container registries.

##### Operational Happiness

Upgrade machines from container images in OTA style - manually or automatically within kubernetes.

##### Bring your own OS

A common featureset shared between Elemental derivatives, completely pluggable.

##### Single Image OS

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.

## How it Works

## Get Started

#### Step 1.
`git clone https://github.com/rancher/elemental-toolkit`

#### Step 2.
`docker build -t example examples/standard`

#### Step 3.
`elemental upgrade example`

That’s it! With just a few commands, you have your own custom OS.

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