This is a simple tool to create an ACI image using your operating system packages.
It includes an example to build a Java7 base image in java7.
- Create a directory to hold your work (e.g. java7)
- Create the packages file with a list of packages to be installed, one per line.
- Create a manifest file which will be your ACI manifest.
- (Optional) Create a postbuild script to do any post-processing after the packages are installed. Here, we set up a convenience symlink.
- Run
./packages2aci <dirname>to build your ACI image (e.g../packages2aci java7)
Your ACI image is then in <dirname>/image.aci. Run it using:
sudo rkt --insecure-skip-verify=true run java7/image.aci
- You have to specify each package individually; it doesn't do recursive dependency analysis.
- This works using your currently installed operating system, so is OS dependent. (This could easily be fixed by doing this inside a rkt image!)