mkrootfs

README

mkrootfs

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This tool was written to allow the creation of root filesystems from docker image names. The binary will download the docker image and untar them in the destination directory provided.

Usage:
  --dest <destination of rootfs> <image repository>

Flags:
      --cacerts string    The location of the CA certs to use for TLS authentication with the registry. (default "/registry-ca-certs.pem")
      --dest string       The destination of the rootfs that we will untar the image to. (default "rootfs")
  -h, --help              help for --dest
      --registry string   The registry to pull the image from. (default "index.docker.io")
      --tag string        The tag of the image to pull. (default "latest")

panic: Requires an image repository as argument

Example usage: mkrootfs library/alpine --dest alpine-rootfs --tag=3.6

Note: The destination rootfs directory needs to be created and empty.