hollywood

Chainguard Container for hollywood

A fun, demo-only container image for Hollywood, which fills your terminal with busy technobabble -- as seen on Saturday Night Live, Netflix, CNBC, and more.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/hollywood:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

What is Hollywood?

Hollywood is a fun, totally frivolous terminal application that fills your console with multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama -- perfectly suitable for busy-looking computers in the background of a film or TV set. It launches a tmux session, splits the terminal into a random number of randomly-sized panes, and runs a different noisy text-mode application in each pane, including cmatrix, htop, bmon, ccze, apg, jp2a, speedometer, tree, and more.

This image is built purely for fun and demo purposes. It doesn't solve any real problem that any real sysadmin or SRE has. It might, however, solve a very real problem that a TV or movie producer has -- making a computer screen look impressively busy on camera.

As Seen On TV (and Film, and YouTube...)

Hollywood has been spotted in the wild in a number of productions, including:

• Saturday Night Live (NBC)
• Unit 42 (Netflix)
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
• NBC News - internet security coverage
• CNBC - "Disruptor 50" segment featuring Attabotics
• Yahoo Finance - data breach reporting
• Experian - television commercial
• SentinelOne - television commercial
• SUSE - parody music video
• Map Men - YouTube series
• Spy Ninjas / Project ZORGO - YouTube series
• DEFCON Music Channel - Twitch
• Texas A&M University Magazine - Spring 2019 issue

For the latest sightings, see hollywood.computer.

Getting Started

This image is designed to run locally on your laptop or desktop in a terminal. It is interactive and requires a TTY -- this is not something you'd deploy into Kubernetes. It's great for showing off to your friends, running on a kiosk display at a conference, or making your screen look busy on a video call.

To run Hollywood:

docker run -it --rm cgr.dev/chainguard/hollywood:latest

For a fullscreen experience, maximize your terminal window first, then run the command above.

To stop it, press q or Ctrl+C repeatedly, then type exit.

Using as a Video Call Background

Hollywood also makes a great virtual background for Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams calls. Run it in a maximized terminal and share that window, or record a loop to use as a virtual background video.

Included Visual Widgets

This image includes a rich set of visual tools that Hollywood randomly selects from:

Documentation and Resources

• Hollywood homepage
• Hollywood on GitHub
• Hollywood MP4 download - suitable for Zoom/Meet virtual backgrounds

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.

All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a development, or -dev, variant.

In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev variant into a more minimal production image.

Need additional packages?

To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl, or API.

To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.

Learn More

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