Finding stuff is hard sometimes. Artifacthub is a CNCF project that indexes published artifacts from different cloud native projects in one index. For cloud people it solves this: “Oh no I need postgres, what’s out there?” You don’t need to move your image or anything like that, it’s designed to let you search across everything.
What does this have to do with desktops? Well, technically a container is an artifact (a thing you publish) so it makes sense to have desktop images live alongside everything else. Our goal has always been to elevate the desktop to be the same as everything else, so it makes sense for us to be listed alongside helm charts, kyverno policies, and all that other stuff. You add some metadata to the image, and the site indexes it for you:
Check out stellarite, or do a quick search for ublue:
You can also embed these widgets on your website. Unfortunately they don’t embed in GitHub READMEs (yet), but I’ve started talking to their team and they think it’s a great idea, and should also act as great social cards when sharing etc. I’m hoping it’ll be another awesome thing you can add alongside repobeats.
Our image-template has everything you need to get started and will generate the proper labels you need, just make an account and follow the instructions. Here is the metadata documentation if you’re not using the template and want to add these labels to your custom image if you prefer to do it that way. Then your page will look awesome:
We’d like to create a bootc category on artifacthub so that it’s easier to just search for only bootable containers, however this doesn’t exist yet. If you’re interested in adding this category to artifacthub then please let me know - their team loves contributions like this and if you want to unlock your “Contributed to a CNCF Project” achievement badge unlocked, holler at me.
Thanks for the team helping out over break! Here’s our hand curated list that’s already out of date, so I’m hoping that we can just have a well sorted category on artficthub.