Immutable root with atomic upgrades

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What?

This article provides a basic guide to setting up a read-only-root-based Alpine Linux system with several boot environments and atomic upgrades using rEFInd and btrfs.

Why?

Read-only root and atomic upgrades with ability to easily rollback or boot previous configurations is a concept that got some popularity recently. Distributions providing and promoting such features, for example, are Fedora Silverblue, Opensuse MicroOS, NixOS and GNU Guix. While Alpine Linux has it's killer features it lacks mentioned above ones on default setup. This is a proof of concept that it's possible to implement them in a minimal way on a minimal system.

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