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docker-brew
docker-brew is a command-line tool used to build the docker standard library.
Install instructions
- Install python if it isn't already available on your OS of choice
- Install the easy_install tool (
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
for Debian) - Install the python package manager,
pip
(easy_install pip
) - Run the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
- You should now be able to use the
docker-brew
script as such.
Basics
./docker-brew -h
Display usage and help.
./docker-brew
Default build from the default repo/branch. Images will be created under the
library/
namespace. Does not perform a remote push.
./docker-brew -n mycorp.com -b stable --push git://github.com/mycorp/docker
Will fetch the library definition files in the stable
branch of the
git://github.com/mycorp/docker
repository and create images under the
mycorp.com
namespace (e.g. mycorp.com/ubuntu
). Created images will then
be pushed to the official docker repository (pending: support for private
repositories)
Library definition files
The library definition files are plain text files found in the library/
subfolder of the docker repository.
File names
The name of a definition file will determine the name of the image(s) it
creates. For example, the library/ubuntu
file will create images in the
<namespace>/ubuntu
repository. If multiple instructions are present in
a single file, all images are expected to be created under a different tag.
Instruction format
Each line represents a build instruction.
There are different formats that docker-brew
is able to parse.
<git-url>
git://github.com/dotcloud/hipache
https://github.com/dotcloud/docker.git
The simplest format. docker-brew
will fetch data from the provided git
repository from the HEAD
of its master
branch. Generated image will be
tagged as latest
. Use of this format is discouraged because there is no
way to ensure stability.
<docker-tag> <git-url>
bleeding-edge git://github.com/dotcloud/docker
unstable https://github.com/dotcloud/docker-redis.git
A more advanced format. docker-brew
will fetch data from the provided git
repository from the HEAD
of its master
branch. Generated image will be
tagged as <docker-tag>
. Recommended if we always want to provide a snapshot
of the latest development. Again, no way to ensure stability.
<docker-tag> <git-url> T:<git-tag>
2.4.0 git://github.com/dotcloud/docker-redis T:2.4.0
<docker-tag> <git-url> B:<git-branch>
zfs git://github.com/dotcloud/docker B:zfs-support
<docker-tag> <git-url> C:<git-commit-id>
2.2.0 https://github.com/dotcloud/docker-redis.git C:a4bf8923ee4ec566d3ddc212
The most complete format. docker-brew
will fetch data from the provided git
repository from the provided reference (if it's a branch, brew will fetch its
HEAD
). Generated image will be tagged as <docker-tag>
. Recommended whenever
possible.