Does anyone know of a hosting service that offers Silverblue as a possible choice for OS?

It seems to me that for a server running only docker services the greatly reduced attack surface of an immutable distro presents a definitive advantage.

  • superkret@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    The immutability isn’t designed to protect against a malicious attacker with root access.
    Any system is fucked if that happens.
    It’s designed to reduce the workload of the maintainers, because they effectively only need to test and build for one standard image.

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      2 months ago

      Makes sense. An “immutable” distro provides no additional security benefit, however CoreOS does have a reduced attack surface area compared to other distros, which itself is a benefit.