tl;dr: When using gpg in Containerfile build steps for container images based on Fedora¹-based (39+), ensure you also include gpgconf --kill keyboxd by the end of the same build step. Alternately, and probably better, create a ~/.gnupg directory before the first invocation of gpg.

I recently became motivated to start blogging again, and needed to make some updates to my blog design before making new posts.¹ I discovered that Jekyll (the static site generator I previously used) has barely been updated in the years since I last posted. Minima, the theme I use (and the default theme for Jekyll), has been updated, but made no releases. With Jekyll essentially a dead product, I decided to follow in Julia Evan’s footsteps again and convert to Hugo.

In our last post, we managed to use Buildah inside of Podman to create new images, but it’s a slow process. We want to be able to iterate on images quickly, so we need to make our build process fast.

I have spent a few weeks figuring out how to change my container development environment from one that uses Docker to one that (almost) completely avoids it.¹