podman-container-tools/buildah
A tool that facilitates building OCI images.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 14 days ago, with 248 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Facilitates building Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images from scratch or existing images using a command line tool.
- Enables rootless image building with Dockerfile-compatible commands, offering flexible, daemonless image creation and integration with scripting languages.
- Use for creating custom OCI images in automated CI/CD pipelines without requiring root privileges.
- Use for building container images programmatically by embedding Buildah's Go API into other tools or workflows.
- Use for modifying container filesystems directly by mounting and manipulating working containers before committing images.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
The Buildah package provides a command line tool that can be used to
For blogs, release announcements and more, please checkout the buildah.io website!
Buildah and Podman are two complementary open-source projects that are available on most Linux platforms and both projects reside at GitHub.com with Buildah here and Podman here. Both, Buildah and Podman are command line tools that work on Open Container Initiative (OCI) images and containers. The two projects differentiate in their specialization.
Buildah specializes in building OCI images. Buildah's commands replicate all of the commands that are found in a Dockerfile. This allows building images with and without Dockerfiles while not requiring any root privileges. Buildah’s ultimate goal is to provide a lower-level coreutils interface to build images. The flexibility of building images without Dockerfiles allows for the integration of other scripting languages into the build process. Buildah follows a simple fork-exec model and does not run as a daemon but it is based on a comprehensive API in golang, which can be vendored into other tools.
Podman specializes in all of the commands and functions that help you to maintain and modify OCI images, such as pulling and tagging. It also allows you to create, run, and maintain those containers created from those images. For building container images via Dockerfiles, Podman uses Buildah's golang API and can be installed independently from Buildah.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
947+28
Open issues
252-15
Compared with peers in DevOps
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| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 20.6K | +8.4K | 75 | today |
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| elie222/rakazo | 7.8K | +958 | 75 | today |
| AstrBotDevs/AstrBot | 46.6K | +774 | 75 | 10 days ago |
| podman-container-tools/buildah | 9.2K | — | 64 | 14 days ago |
| Category median | 20.6K | +1.0K | 75 | — |
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