ocibuilder

ocibuilder - Build Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant images the declarative way

What is the ocibuilder?

The ocibuilder offers a command line tool called the ocictl to build, push and pull OCI compliant images through declarative specifications, allowing you to pick between Buildah or Docker as the container build tool.

Features

• Specify docker or buildah as a build tool.
• Define multiple builds in single build configuration.
• Ability to templatize build stages.
• Multi-stage build support
• Parameterize build configuration at runtime with environment variable support.
• Supports distroless to produce lean images.
• Supports ansible roles as build stage.
• Supports build contexts like Local Filesystem, Git, S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Storage Blob, Aliyun OSS
• All basic features like registry login, pulling and pushing images from/to multiple registries.

Architecture

Install

Binary downloads of the ocictl are available on the Releases page.

You can use the install.sh script to install the latest version of ocictl:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocibuilder/ocibuilder/master/install.sh | sh

This requires GOPATH to be set, with bin added to your PATH.

The latest images with Buildah and Docker pre-installed alongside the ocictl is available on our Dockerhub repository.

Read the full installation guide available in our docs.

Getting Started

To learn more about the ocibuilder and how to get started take a look at our quick start guide.

Documentation

View our complete documentation.

The ocibuilder.yaml specification file with all fields available and examples is documented here.

Roadmap

Take a look at our roadmap and features in developement here

Contribute

Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md for contributing guidelines.

License

Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE

References

Docker: https://github.com/docker

Buildah Commands: https://github.com/containers/buildah