builder

A Concourse task to builds Docker images without pushing and without spinning up a Docker daemon. Currently uses img for the building and saving.

This repository describes an image which should be used to run a task similar to example.yml.

A stretch goal of this is to support running without privileged: true, though it currently still requires it.

task config

Concourse doesn't yet have easily distributable task configs (there's an open call for an RFC), so we'll just have to document what you need to set here.

image

The task's image should refer to concourse/builder-task. You can either configure this via image_resource or pull it in as part of your pipeline.

params

The following params are required:

• $REPOSITORY: the repository to name the image, e.g. concourse/builder-task.

The following are optional:

• $TAG (default latest): the tag to apply to the image.

• $TAG_FILE (default empty): the tag should be a path to a file containing the name of the tag.

• $CONTEXT (default .): the path to the directory to build. This should refer to one of the inputs.

• $DOCKERFILE (default $CONTEXT/Dockerfile): the path to the Dockerfile to build.

• $BUILD_ARG_* (default empty): Params that start with BUILD_ARG_ will be translated to --build-arg options. For example BUILD_ARG_foo=bar, will become --build-arg foo=bar

• $BUILD_ARGS_FILE (default empty): path to a file containing Docker build-time variables.

  Example file contents:

  EMAIL=me@yopmail.com
  HOW_MANY_THINGS=1
  DO_THING=false
  

• $UNPACK_ROOTFS (default empty): If set to a non-empty value a metadata.json and rootfs folder will be created in the output directory in addition to the image tarball. This can be used to start the image in a subsequent task without uploading it to a registry using the "image:" task step option.

• $TARGET (default empty): the target build stage to build.

• $TARGET_FILE (default empty): the path to a file containing the name of the target build stage to build.

inputs

There are no required inputs - your task should just list each artifact it needs as an input.

outputs

Your task may configure an output called image. The saved image tarball will be written to image.tar within the output. This tarball can be passed along to docker load, or uploaded to a registry using the Registry Image resource.

caches

Build caching can be enabled by configuring a cache named cache on the task.

run

Your task should execute the build script.

example

This repo contains an example.yml, which builds the image for the builder itself:

fly -t dev execute -c example.yml -o image=. -p
docker load -i image.tar