Create a chiseled filesystem

Canonical Ubuntu
786 views July 24, 2026

Learn how to create custom chiseled root filesystems (rootfs) using Chisel across different Ubuntu releases and CPU architectures. In this tutorial, we cover three key deployment scenarios: - Same architecture and release: Slice a filesystem matching the host OS (amd64, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) using default parameters. - Different Ubuntu release: Override default settings using --release to slice an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS filesystem from an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host. - Different architecture: Target a different CPU architecture using --arch to slice an arm64 filesystem on an amd64 host. Each scenario is verified inside a sudo chroot environment to confirm application functionality. #Ubuntu #OpenSource #Chisel #Linux

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