Custom OS Image Deployment

The cluster focuses on tools and techniques for building, booting, and deploying custom OS images to VPS and cloud providers with limited distro options, emphasizing PXE, netboot.xyz, immutable OSes like bootc and Universal Blue.

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NewJazz Jul 16, 2025 View on HN

I've been meaning to try this other toolhttps://github.com/osbuild/bootc-image-builder

9029 Jan 3, 2026 View on HN

I think it could be interesting to explore Universal Blue based distros such as Bazzite for this kind of use cases. The OS comes from a standard OCI container image, which means you can create your own customized one by layering changes on top of an upstream base image.I feel bad for the unsolicited distro plug though especially since you already have a solution that works well and you are familiar with, but I thought it might still be useful to mention it. I'm not sure if uBlue would ev

pabs3 Dec 6, 2024 View on HN

Sounds like you might be someone interested in the Bootstrappable Builds project:https://bootstrappable.org/ https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/

TheSmiddy Jan 29, 2022 View on HN

vultr lets you install custom ISOs, can also pxeboot.

pimeys Dec 25, 2024 View on HN

Could the Universal Blue image builder solve this for you?https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template

indigodaddy Aug 17, 2025 View on HN

Pretty much yeah. For example OCI (Oracle Cloud) has a pretty small set of OS choices, with Debian not included, and on the free tier, I don't believe you can upload your own OS images anymore. I used a similar script for an OCI VM (https://github.com/bohanyang/debi), but this one obviously supports more OSes (haven't tried it yet but planning to try the reinstall to netboot.xyz opt

moepstar Aug 20, 2024 View on HN

netboot.xyz allows you to preload the isos you want to boot :)

chfritz Feb 4, 2023 View on HN

Can you use this to create PXE bootable systems?

belthesar Aug 20, 2024 View on HN

Netboot.xyz allows you to self-host an instance of it, which can cache ISOs. I was doing it for a time, and thought it neat, but not worth the hassle to keep running.

orev Mar 5, 2024 View on HN

Bootable USB that loads iPXE, with a custom boot config that downloads the kernel and initrd from your own cloud server?