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buildah - a tool which facilitates building OCI container images
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Note: this package is in alpha, but is close to being feature-complete.
The buildah package provides a command line tool which can be used to
* create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point
* create an image, either from a working container or via the instructions in a Dockerfile
* images can be built in either the OCI image format or the traditional upstream docker image format
* mount a working container's root filesystem for manipulation
* unmount a working container's root filesystem
* use the updated contents of a container's root filesystem as a filesystem layer to create a new image
* delete a working container or an image
**Installation notes**
Prior to installing buildah, install the following packages on your linux distro:
* make
* golang (Requires version 1.8.1 or higher.)
* bats
* btrfs-progs-devel
* device-mapper-devel
* gpgme-devel
* libassuan-devel
* git
* bzip2
* go-md2man
* skopeo-containers
In Fedora, you can use this command:
```
dnf -y install \
make \
golang \
bats \
btrfs-progs-devel \
device-mapper-devel \
gpgme-devel \
libassuan-devel \
git \
bzip2 \
go-md2man \
skopeo-containers
```
Then to install buildah follow the steps in this example:
```
mkdir ~/buildah
cd ~/buildah
export GOPATH=`pwd`
git clone https://github.com/projectatomic/buildah ./src/github.com/projectatomic/buildah
cd ./src/github.com/projectatomic/buildah
make
make install
buildah --help
```
buildah uses `runc` to run commands when `buildah run` is used, or when `buildah build-using-dockerfile`
encounters a `RUN` instruction, so you'll also need to build and install a compatible version of
[runc](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc) for buildah to call for those cases.
## Commands
| Command | Description |
| --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| buildah-add(1) | Add the contents of a file, URL, or a directory to the container. |
| buildah-bud(1) | Build an image using instructions from Dockerfiles. |
| buildah-commit(1) | Create an image from a working container. |
| buildah-config(1) | Update image configuration settings. |
| buildah-containers(1) | List the working containers and their base images. |
| buildah-copy(1) | Copies the contents of a file, URL, or directory into a container's working directory. |
| buildah-from(1) | Creates a new working container, either from scratch or using a specified image as a starting point. |
| buildah-images(1) | List images in local storage. |
| buildah-inspect(1) | Inspects the configuration of a container or image. |
| buildah-mount(1) | Mount the working container's root filesystem. |
| buildah-push(1) | Copies an image from local storage. |
| buildah-rm(1) | Removes one or more working containers. |
| buildah-rmi(1) | Removes one or more images. |
| buildah-run(1) | Run a command inside of the container. |
| buildah-tag(1) | Add an additional name to a local image. |
| buildah-umount(1) | Unmount a working container's root file system. |
**Future goals include:**
* more CI tests
* additional CLI commands (?)