Hi! I got into Rocky Linux by way of Podman. About a year or two ago I started to think about using a distro related to Red Hat because Podman and quay.io were developed by Red Hat. I’ve been into containers for a long time now, and didn’t like Docker’s changes, and thought it should be more open. Part of it is that there is a such thing as OCI images, not just Docker images, yet they’re mostly built with a Dockerfile, but podman has a Containerfile. When I saw that Podman was contributed to the CNCF I started thinking seriously about it again, and read about Rocky Linux’s roots and tried it out, and I really like it so far.
I’m looking at using Rocky Linux both for the OCI container host and the OCI container guests. For the guests, a lot of the container images tend to be Debian and Alpine, but the Dockerfiles are available, so I can just change the base image to Rocky Linux and adapt them to use dnf instead of apt or apk. I just built a Rust container on Rocky Linux and am working on building a Rhai WebAssembly module. Rhai is a scripting language for Rust.
So far everything with Rocky Linux is going swimmingly, and I look forward to participating in the community and building software on top of it!