Fedora Silverblue on the Raspberry Pi

As of today there is not a raw Silverblue image to flash on an SD card, despite the fact that Silverblue is available for aarch64 architectures.

In order to install Fedora Silverblue on the Raspberry Pi, there are various guides where you need to prepare the SD card adding UEFI and some other tricks.

So, why not install Fedora IoT, then rebase to Fedora Silverblue? The power of ostree.

Unorthodox way to install Fedora IoT (and FCOS)

In a Fedora Magazine article, I was facing the problem that some VPS providers don’t offer Fedora as an option. Many of them offer a set of images (usually limited to CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu), and there is no way to upload and use an ISO or an image of your choice. In other words you can’t install a distribution of your choice. So. What if you want to install and use Fedora IoT on a VPS?