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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/FluffyMumbles on 2025-07-23 10:20:02+00:00.
My ears pricked up recently when I heard about distros like Fedora CoreOS and Flatcar Linux.
The idea of a declarative, automatically updating distro used solely for containers really REALLY appeals to me.
But I quickly lost interest in the above when I discovered I'd have to learn a new style of config format (ignition?).
Now I'm after something that's all declared inside a .yaml file - and nothing more. This would have all my containers (obviously) along with details such as hostname, SSH key, mount paths against my drives UUIDs, SMB shares etc.
I feel like this should already be a solved problem.
I'm already doing most of this via raw Debian and my existing .yaml file, but being able to declare the ENTIRE built (including fstab entries and smb.config) would be ace.
Can anyone recommend a distro that does this? Does it even exist?