Wolfi: Building a New Linux (Un)distro PackagingCon 2023

This talk will cover: - The primary use case for Wolfi as a foundation for hardened and up-to-date container images - Why Chainguard couldn't use Alpine or Debian for our images - What it means to be an "undistro" - The line walked by all distributions between keeping up-to-date with software releases and providing stability for users - Our own tooling (melange) for building packages and apko for building images - The importance of reproducibility; being able to exactly recreate packages and images - Using automation to aggressively reduce the cost of package maintenance Finally we'll talk about our hopes for Wolfi as a community project and how you can get involved!