Hello everyone, this week has been very productive. With the GSoC box up and running I have been implementing a base idea for how the container system will work. There is a tool to create a docker image, which starts up into an alpine container which configures and bootstraps a user-targeted stage3. Once in the gentoo environment, catalyst is installed and the docker image is finished building. This docker image can then be started with run-time defined binds to directories in the container from a specfile, startup script, and catalyst build and packages directory. This allows the image to be run subsequently to allow building of all three stages from a dockerfile built once.

The functional prototype is available at:
https://github.com/pandather/catalyst-containerized <https://github.com/pandather/catalyst-containerized> 
It should be easily configurable except for portage overlays at the moment, across arches. Planned work now will consist of standardizing the code based, arranging everything more logically, and providing a configuration system that’s script and production ready, and capable of tying into existing catalyst installations.

Mark Joseph Kuebel
Nick (libera.chat): pandather