buildah

Buildah is a tool that facilitates building Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/buildah as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/buildah)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/buildah)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/buildah --binlink

will add the following binary to the PATH:

• /bin/buildah

For example:

$ hab pkg install core/buildah --binlink
» Installing core/buildah
☁ Determining latest version of core/buildah in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/buildah/1.14.8/20200817090109) than remote version (core/buildah/1.14.8/20200513154053)
→ Using core/buildah/1.14.8/20200817090109
★ Install of core/buildah/1.14.8/20200817090109 complete with 0 new packages installed.
» Binlinking buildah from core/buildah/1.14.8/20200817090109 into /bin
★ Binlinked buildah from core/buildah/1.14.8/20200817090109 to /bin/buildah

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/buildah --help or buildah --help

$ buildah --help
A tool that facilitates building OCI images

Usage:
  buildah [flags]
  buildah [command]

Available Commands:
  add                    Add content to the container
  build-using-dockerfile Build an image using instructions in a Dockerfile
  commit                 Create an image from a working container
  config                 Update image configuration settings
  containers             List working containers and their base images
  copy                   Copy content into the container
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