Tag: Dockerfile

Building and managing container images with Buildah

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buildah is a open source tool which can be used to build OCI compliant container images without using docker engine. It can also be run in a rootless mode, thereby reducing the attack surface area and also inside a container image itself.

You can use buildah to built container images from existing container images, from Dockerfiles and from scratch (read empty images) as well. OCI images built using buildah are portable and can be run on different hosts as well with different container engines such as CRI-O, Podman, Docker Engine, etc.

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Best Practices for Writing Dockerfiles

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Over the last few years, adoption of Docker and Kubernetes has grown in leaps and bounds. Vast majority of developers is developing microservices and deploying them into containers. One of the most important aspect that people do not realize is that, the containers needs to be lightweight in nature. Also, while building containers, one needs to account for certain aspects like reducing build time while doing incremental builds, produce images in consistent ways, performing clean builds, maintain them properly, etc. To achieve all this, one needs to follow certain practices while writing Dockerfiles.
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