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Buildah : Install2025/11/12
 

Install Buildah that supports to create Container images.

It's possible to create OCI (Open Container Initiative) format image without specific Service Daemon.

[1] Install Buildah.
[root@dlp ~]#
dnf -y install buildah
[2] This is the basic usage for Buildah.
Create a working container from an image.
# create a working container from [fedora] image

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah from fedora 

Resolved "fedora" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 4f417555f8f8 done   |
Copying config a9005aba99 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination
fedora-working-container
# show container list

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah containers 

CONTAINER ID  BUILDER  IMAGE ID     IMAGE NAME                       CONTAINER NAME
85736a261f93     *     a9005aba99b1 registry.fedoraproject.org/fe... fedora-working-container
# show container image list

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah images 

REPOSITORY                          TAG      IMAGE ID       CREATED      SIZE
registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora   latest   a9005aba99b1   2 days ago   186 MB
# possible to use images on podman

[root@dlp ~]#
podman images 

REPOSITORY                         TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED     SIZE
registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora  latest      a9005aba99b1  2 days ago  186 MB
[3] Operate Working Container.
# set shell variable

[root@dlp ~]#
container=$(buildah from fedora)

[root@dlp ~]#
echo $container

fedora-working-container-1
# possible to run commands

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah run $container echo "Hello Buildah World"

Hello Buildah World
[root@dlp ~]#
buildah run $container bash

bash-5.3#
dnf -y install python3

bash-5.3#
exit

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah run $container python3 -V

Python 3.14.0
[4] Copy files into Working Container.
[root@dlp ~]#
echo "buildah test" > buildah.txt

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah copy $container buildah.txt /tmp/buildah.txt 

28ca540e3c2895a1cea4aeff57f0f554662c11fc58c6f51a1e237521c813764e
[root@dlp ~]#
buildah run $container cat /tmp/buildah.txt

buildah test
[5] Mount filesystem of Working Container.
[root@dlp ~]#
buildah mount $container 

/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/11e58a21ba740def8da76dec0727529e64853a9af09d50d901e2d15ea0caf31a/merged
[root@dlp ~]#
ll /var/lib/containers/storage/overlay/11e58a21ba740def8da76dec0727529e64853a9af09d50d901e2d15ea0caf31a/merged 

total 0
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root  6 Jul 30 09:00 afs
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  7 Jul 30 09:00 bin -> usr/bin
dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root  6 Jul 30 09:00 boot
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  6 Nov  9 15:47 dev
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 25 Nov 12 10:08 etc
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  6 Jul 30 09:00 home
.....
.....
# unmount

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah umount $container 

168fc77d5d6aa8f2ada63a672c466a54334c32794042ac325d721f2930389eec
[6] Create a container image from Working Container.
[root@dlp ~]#
buildah commit $container my-fedora:latest 

Getting image source signatures
Copying blob f37e4c50fba3 skipped: already exists
Copying blob 6ec9c48c5cee done   |
Copying config d9e0d86542 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination
d9e0d86542aa4219ff2634d79d172f8477f1d0579df02f6e2644cc3f9f64f5c9
[root@dlp ~]#
buildah images 

REPOSITORY                          TAG      IMAGE ID       CREATED          SIZE
localhost/my-fedora                 latest   d9e0d86542aa   19 seconds ago   325 MB
registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora   latest   a9005aba99b1   2 days ago       186 MB
# possible to use container images on podman

[root@dlp ~]#
podman run localhost/my-fedora cat /etc/os-release 

NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="43 (Container Image)"
RELEASE_TYPE=stable
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=43
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 43 (Container Image)"
.....
.....
[7] Push a container image to a specified Registry.
[root@dlp ~]#
buildah images 

REPOSITORY                          TAG      IMAGE ID       CREATED              SIZE
localhost/my-fedora                 latest   d9e0d86542aa   About a minute ago   325 MB
registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora   latest   a9005aba99b1   2 days ago           186 MB
# push [localhost/my-fedora] image to [node01.srv.world:5000] registry
# if target registry is not on SSL/TLS, need [--tls-verify=false] option

[root@dlp ~]#
buildah push --tls-verify=false localhost/my-fedora node01.srv.world:5000/my-fedora 

Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 92e30f8057f2 done   |
Copying blob dccf7e89f659 done   |
Copying config 0ee32bb622 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination
[root@dlp ~]#
curl node01.srv.world:5000/v2/_catalog

{"repositories":["my-fedora"]}
# possible to Pull from other nodes

[root@node01 ~]#
podman pull --tls-verify=false node01.srv.world:5000/my-fedora

[root@node01 ~]#
podman images 

REPOSITORY                       TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED        SIZE
node01.srv.world:5000/my-fedora  latest      cba8e7c8a23a  9 minutes ago  294 MB
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