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Published: Aug 17, 2017 License: Apache-2.0 Imports: 13 Imported by: 0

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Box: A Next-Generation Builder for Docker Images

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Box is a builder for docker that gives you the power of mruby, a limited, embeddable ruby. It allows for notions of conditionals, loops, and data structures for use within your builder plan. If you've written a Dockerfile before, writing a box build plan is easy.

  • Unique general features:

    • mruby syntax
    • filtering of keywords to secure builds
    • REPL (shell) for interactive building (see video below)
    • Multiple builds at once: build whole projects worth of images
  • In the build plan itself:

    • Tagging
    • Flattening
    • Debug mode (drop to a shell in the middle of a plan run and inspect your container)
    • Ruby block methods for user (with_user) and workdir (inside) allow you to scope copy and run operations for a more obvious build plan.
  • Extended Documentation for Syntax and Usage

Install

Using the Homebrew Tap
brew tap box-builder/box && brew install box-builder/box/box

Example

This will fetch the golang image, update APT, and then install the packages set in the packages variable. It then creates a user and copies the dir to its homedir. If an environment value is provided, it will be used. Then it will tag the whole image as mypackages.

Save it to plan.rb and run it with box plan.rb. Box only copies what it needs to; your whole directory won't be uploaded to docker.

from "golang"

packages = "build-essential g++ git wget curl ruby bison flex"

run "apt-get update"
run "apt-get install -y #{packages}"

run %q[useradd -m -d /home/erikh -s /bin/bash erikh]

inside "/home/erikh" do
  copy((getenv("MYDIR") || "."), ".")
end

tag "mypackages"

Video

Here's a video of the shell in action (click for more):

Available in v0.3 and up

Box REPL

Advanced Use

The documentation is the best resource for learning the different verbs and functions. However, check out our own build plan for box for an example of how to use different predicates, functions, and verbs to get everything you need out of it.

Development Instructions

  • Requires: compiler, bison, flex, and libgpgme, libdevmapper, btrfs headers.
  • go get -d github.com/box-builder/box && cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/box-builder/box
  • To build on the host (create a dev environment):
    • make
  • To build a docker image for your dev environment (needed for test and release builds):
    • make build
  • If you have a dev environment:
    • make test
  • To do a release build:
    • VERSION=<version> make release

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