coreos/toolbox

bring your tools with you

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	Ha! I wrote the first commit to CoreOS's toolbox in 2014: https://github.com/coreos/toolbox/commit/dc4aa0b14bceafd6afa... And then I read your comment and my first reaction was, oh, they typoed toolbox. But, nope, Red Hat created toolbx which confusingly has the CLI binary of `toolbox`:… on Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux	0	Sep 30, 2026

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toolbox - bring your tools with you

rhcos-toolbox is a small script, designed for RHEL CoreOS, that launches a podman container to let you bring in your favorite debugging or admin tools.

This project is deprecated and in maintenance mode.

We recommend that you use https://github.com/containers/toolbox instead.

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Evgeny Vereshchagin

89 followers · starred Apr 2016

Timo Reimann

151 followers · starred Dec 2016

Yicheng Qin

194 followers · starred Apr 2014

Franz Pletz

270 followers · starred Feb 2017

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coreos/toolbox

bring your tools with you

Shell

396

117 commits

updated Jan 29, 2026

See the code

See what people are saying

Newest first

Most points

Source	Message	Score	Date
	Ha! I wrote the first commit to CoreOS's toolbox in 2014: https://github.com/coreos/toolbox/commit/dc4aa0b14bceafd6afa... And then I read your comment and my first reaction was, oh, they typoed toolbox. But, nope, Red Hat created toolbx which confusingly has the CLI binary of `toolbox`:… on Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux	0	Sep 30, 2026

README

toolbox - bring your tools with you

rhcos-toolbox is a small script, designed for RHEL CoreOS, that launches a podman container to let you bring in your favorite debugging or admin tools.

This project is deprecated and in maintenance mode.

We recommend that you use https://github.com/containers/toolbox instead.