stacker

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v0.40.5 Latest Latest Go to latest Published: Nov 22, 2023 License: Apache-2.0

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Stacker is a tool for building OCI images natively via a declarative yaml format.

Stacker has various build and runtime dependencies.

See the hacking guide for tips on hacking/debugging stacker.

See the tutorial for a short introduction to how to use stacker.

See the stacker.yaml specification for full details on the stacker.yaml specification.

Additionally, there are some tips and tricks for common usage.

Upstream something to containers/image that allows for automatic detection of compression
Design/implement OCIv2 drafts + final spec when it comes out

An Operator Centric Way to Update Application Containers FOSDEM 2019
- video
- slides
Building OCI Images without Privilege OSS EU 2018
- slides
Building OCI Images without Privilege OSS NA 2018
- slides

(Note that despite the similarity in name of the 2018 talks, the content is mostly disjoint; I need to be more creative with naming.)

stacker is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0, and is:

Path	Synopsis
cmd
stacker
pkg
atomfs
container
container/idmap
embed-exec This is a package to go from an embed.FS + file name to an exec.Command; works only on recent linux kernels	This is a package to go from an embed.FS + file name to an exec.Command; works only on recent linux kernels
lib
lib/containers_storage containers/image/storage has a dependency on libdevmapper.so; having this in its own package allows downstream users to import it if they want to use it, but means they can also avoid importing it if they don't want to add this dependency.	containers/image/storage has a dependency on libdevmapper.so; having this in its own package allows downstream users to import it if they want to use it, but means they can also avoid importing it if they don't want to add this dependency.
log
mount
mtree
oci
overlay A basic overlay storage backend.	A basic overlay storage backend.
squashfs This package is a small go "library" (read: exec wrapper) around the mksquashfs binary that provides some useful primitives.	This package is a small go "library" (read: exec wrapper) around the mksquashfs binary that provides some useful primitives.
stacker
storage common code used by storage backends	common code used by storage backends
types