projectatomic/system-buildah

Name: system-buildah

Owner: Project Atomic

Description: Simple toolbox for building system containers

Created: 2017-04-05 22:17:31.0

Updated: 2018-05-15 17:54:53.0

Pushed: 2018-02-26 14:19:41.0

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Size: 76

Language: Python

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README

system-buildah

Simple toolbox for building system images. Read more on the Project Atomic Blog.

Requires

NOTE: This code base is written to be compatible with Python 3 and thus will not work on older versions of Python!

The list of requirements are limited to keep portability between OS variations as simple as possible.

• python3
• docker binary and service
• ocitools binary
• jinja2 (python library)
• buildah (optional for experimental manager)

Install

For Your User

1. Clone the repo

Install via RPM

1. Download the source
2. Extract the source to the local directory
3. Move the tarball to your rpmbuild/SOURCES/ directory

Example

nerate system image files
stem-buildah generate-files \
--default=variable=value -D=another=anothervalue \
--config="--hostname=confighost --cwd=/root" \
new_container_image
nerate a system image Dockerfile
stem-buildah generate-dockerfile \
--from-base fedora:latest \
--output new_container_image name_of_image

Moby/Docker

ild a system container image
stem-buildah build \
--path new_container_image my_system_container_image
]
port the image as a tar
stem-buildah tar my_system_container_image

Buildah (Experimental)

ild a system container image
stem-buildah build --manager buildah \
--path new_container_image my_system_container_image
]
port the image as a tar
stem-buildah tar --manager buildah my_system_container_image