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buildah(1)		     General Commands Manual		      buildah(1)

NAME
     Buildah  -  A command line tool that facilitates building OCI container im-
     ages.

SYNOPSIS
     buildah [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARG...]

DESCRIPTION
     The Buildah package provides a command line tool which can be used to:

     * Create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point.
     * Mount a working container's root filesystem for manipulation.
     * Unmount a working container's root filesystem.
     * Use the updated contents of a container's root filesystem as a filesystem layer to create a new image.
     * Delete a working container or an image.
     * Rename a local container.

OPTIONS
     --cgroup-manager=manager

     The CGroup manager to use	for  container	cgroups.  Supported  values  are
     cgroupfs  or  systemd. Default is systemd unless overridden in the contain-
     ers.conf file.

     Note: Setting this flag can cause certain commands to break when called  on
     containers  previously  created  by  the  other CGroup manager type.  Note:
     CGroup manager is not supported in rootless mode when using CGroups Version
     V1.

     --imagestore path

     Path under which content for pulled and built images will	be  stored.   By
     default, the configured --root location is used for pulled and built images
     as  well  as containers.  If the storage driver is overlay, then any images
     which have previously been written to the --root  location  will  still  be
     available.

     This will override the imagestore option in containers-storage.conf(5).

     --log-level level

     The log level to be used. Either "trace", "debug", "info", "warn", "error",
     "fatal", or "panic", defaulting to "warn".

     --help, -h

     Show help

     --registries-conf path

     Pathname  of  the	configuration  file which specifies which container reg-
     istries should be consulted when completing image names which  do	not  in-
     clude a registry or domain portion.  It is not recommended that this option
     be  used,	as  the  default behavior of using the system-wide configuration
     (/etc/containers/registries.conf) is most often preferred.

     --registries-conf-dir path

     Pathname of the directory which contains configuration snippets which spec-
     ify registries which should be consulted when completing image names  which
     do  not  include  a registry or domain portion.  It is not recommended that
     this option be used, as the default behavior of using the system-wide  con-
     figuration (/etc/containers/registries.d) is most often preferred.

     --root path

     Storage   root  dir  (default:  "/var/lib/containers/storage"  for  UID  0,
     "$HOME/.local/share/containers/storage" for other users).	The default root
     dir is configured in /etc/containers/storage.conf.

     --runroot path

     Storage  state  dir  (default:   "/run/containers/storage"   for	UID   0,
     "/run/user/$UID"  for other users).  The default state dir is configured in
     /etc/containers/storage.conf.

     --short-name-alias-conf path

     Pathname of the file which contains cached  mappings  between  short  image
     names  and  their corresponding fully-qualified names.  It is used for map-
     ping from names of images specified using short  names  like  "ubi8"  which
     don't include a registry component and a corresponding fully-specified name
     which  includes  a registry and any other components, such as "registry.ac-
     cess.redhat.com/ubi8".  It is not recommended that this option be used,  as
     the  default  behavior  of using the system-wide cache (/var/cache/contain-
     ers/short-name-aliases.conf)  or  per-user   cache   ($HOME/.cache/contain-
     ers/short-name-aliases.conf) to supplement system-wide defaults is most of-
     ten preferred.

     --storage-driver value

     Storage  driver.	The  default  storage  driver for UID 0 is configured in
     /etc/containers/storage.conf   ($HOME/.config/containers/storage.conf    in
     rootless mode), and is vfs for other users.  The STORAGE_DRIVER environment
     variable  overrides  the  default.   The  --storage-driver specified driver
     overrides all.

     Examples: "overlay", "vfs"

     Overriding this option will cause the storage-opt settings in /etc/contain-
     ers/storage.conf to be ignored.  The user must specify  additional  options
     via the --storage-opt flag.

     --storage-opt value

     Storage  driver  option,  Default	storage driver options are configured in
     /etc/containers/storage.conf   ($HOME/.config/containers/storage.conf    in
     rootless  mode).  The  STORAGE_OPTS  environment variable overrides the de-
     fault. The --storage-opt specified options overrides all.

     --transient-store bool-value

     Store metadata about containers under the storage state  directory  (--run-
     root),  with the intention that records about them will be removed when the
     system is rebooted.  Additional garbage collection must still be  performed
     at boot-time, so this option should remain disabled in most configurations.
     (default: false)

     --userns-gid-map mapping

     Directly  specifies a GID mapping which should be used to set ownership, at
     the filesystem level, on the working container's  contents.   Commands  run
     when  handling RUN instructions will default to being run in their own user
     namespaces, configured using the UID and GID maps.

     Entries in this map take the form of one or more colon-separated triples of
     a starting in-container GID, a corresponding starting host-level  GID,  and
     the number of consecutive IDs which the map entry represents.

     This  option  overrides  the  remap-gids  setting in the options section of
     /etc/containers/storage.conf.

     If this option is not specified, but a global --userns-gid-map  setting  is
     supplied, settings from the global option will be used.

     If  none of --userns-uid-map-user, --userns-gid-map-group, or --userns-gid-
     map are specified, but --userns-uid-map is specified, the GID map	will  be
     set to use the same numeric values as the UID map.

     NOTE:  When this option is specified by a rootless user, the specified map-
     pings are relative to the rootless usernamespace in the  container,  rather
     than being relative to the host as it would be when run rootful.

     --userns-uid-map mapping

     Directly  specifies a UID mapping which should be used to set ownership, at
     the filesystem level, on the working container's  contents.   Commands  run
     when  handling RUN instructions will default to being run in their own user
     namespaces, configured using the UID and GID maps.

     Entries in this map take the form of one or more colon-separated triples of
     a starting in-container UID, a corresponding starting host-level  UID,  and
     the number of consecutive IDs which the map entry represents.

     This  option  overrides  the  remap-uids  setting in the options section of
     /etc/containers/storage.conf.

     If this option is not specified, but a global --userns-uid-map  setting  is
     supplied, settings from the global option will be used.

     If  none of --userns-uid-map-user, --userns-gid-map-group, or --userns-uid-
     map are specified, but --userns-gid-map is specified, the UID map	will  be
     set to use the same numeric values as the GID map.

     NOTE:  When this option is specified by a rootless user, the specified map-
     pings are relative to the rootless usernamespace in the  container,  rather
     than being relative to the host as it would be when run rootful.

     --version, -v

     Print the version

Environment Variables
     Buildah can set up environment variables from the env entry in the [engine]
     table in the containers.conf(5). These variables can be overridden by pass-
     ing environment variables before the buildah commands.

COMMANDS
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | Command	  | Man Page		  | Description 		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | add	  | buildah-add(1)	  | Add  the  contents	of a file, |
     |		  |			  | URL, or  a	directory  to  the |
     |		  |			  | container.			   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | build	  | buildah-build(1)	  | Builds  an OCI image using in- |
     |		  |			  | structions in one or more Con- |
     |		  |			  | tainerfiles.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | commit	  | buildah-commit(1)	  | Create an image from a working |
     |		  |			  | container.			   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | config	  | buildah-config(1)	  | Update   image   configuration |
     |		  |			  | settings.			   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | containers | buildah-containers(1) | List  the  working	containers |
     |		  |			  | and their base images.	   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | copy	  | buildah-copy(1)	  | Copies the contents of a file, |
     |		  |			  | URL, or directory into a  con- |
     |		  |			  | tainer's working directory.    |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | from	  | buildah-from(1)	  | Creates  a	new  working  con- |
     |		  |			  | tainer, either from scratch or |
     |		  |			  | using a specified image  as  a |
     |		  |			  | starting point.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | images	  | buildah-images(1)	  | List images in local storage.  |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | info	  | buildah-info(1)	  | Display  Buildah system infor- |
     |		  |			  | mation.			   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | inspect	  | buildah-inspect(1)	  | Inspects the configuration	of |
     |		  |			  | a container or image	   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | login	  | buildah-login(1)	  | Login to a container registry. |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | logout	  | buildah-logout(1)	  | Logout of a container registry |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | manifest   | buildah-manifest(1)   | Create and manipulate manifest |
     |		  |			  | lists and image indexes.	   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | mkcw	  | buildah-mkcw(1)	  | Convert  a	conventional  con- |
     |		  |			  | tainer image into a  confiden- |
     |		  |			  | tial workload image.	   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | mount	  | buildah-mount(1)	  | Mount  the working container's |
     |		  |			  | root filesystem.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | prune	  | buildah-prune(1)	  | Cleanup intermediate images as |
     |		  |			  | well as build and mount cache. |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | pull	  | buildah-pull(1)	  | Pull an image from the  speci- |
     |		  |			  | fied location.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | push	  | buildah-push(1)	  | Push an image from local stor- |
     |		  |			  | age to elsewhere.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | rename	  | buildah-rename(1)	  | Rename a local container.	   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | rm	  | buildah-rm(1)	  | Removes  one  or  more working |
     |		  |			  | containers. 		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | rmi	  | buildah-rmi(1)	  | Removes one or more images.    |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | run	  | buildah-run(1)	  | Run a command  inside  of  the |
     |		  |			  | container.			   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | source	  | buildah-source(1)	  | Create,  push, pull and manage |
     |		  |			  | source images  and	associated |
     |		  |			  | source artifacts.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | tag	  | buildah-tag(1)	  | Add  an  additional  name to a |
     |		  |			  | local image.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | umount	  | buildah-umount(1)	  | Unmount a working  container's |
     |		  |			  | root file system.		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | unshare	  | buildah-unshare(1)	  | Launch  a  command	in  a user |
     |		  |			  | namespace  with  modified	ID |
     |		  |			  | mappings.			   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
     | version	  | buildah-version(1)	  | Display  the  Buildah  Version |
     |		  |			  | Information 		   |
     +------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------+

Files
     storage.conf (/etc/containers/storage.conf)

     storage.conf is the storage configuration file for all tools using contain-
     ers/storage

     The storage configuration file specifies all  of  the  available  container
     storage options for tools using shared container storage.

     mounts.conf (/usr/share/containers/mounts.conf and optionally /etc/contain-
     ers/mounts.conf)

     The  mounts.conf  files  specify volume mount files or directories that are
     automatically mounted inside containers when executing the buildah  run  or
     buildah  build  commands.	 Container  processes can then use this content.
     The volume mount content does not get committed to the final image.

     Usually these directories are used for passing secrets or	credentials  re-
     quired by the package software to access remote package repositories.

     For  example, a mounts.conf with the line "/usr/share/rhel/secrets:/run/se-
     crets", the content of  /usr/share/rhel/secrets  directory  is  mounted  on
     /run/secrets  inside  the container.  This mountpoint allows Red Hat Enter-
     prise Linux subscriptions from the host to be used  within  the  container.
     It  is  also  possible  to omit the destination if it's equal to the source
     path.  For example, specifying /var/lib/secrets will  mount  the  directory
     into the same container destination path /var/lib/secrets.

     Note  this is not a volume mount. The content of the volumes is copied into
     container storage, not bind mounted directly from the host.

     registries.conf (/etc/containers/registries.conf)

     registries.conf is the configuration file which specifies	which  container
     registries should be consulted when completing image names which do not in-
     clude a registry or domain portion.

     registries.d (/etc/containers/registries.d)

     Directory	which  contains  configuration snippets which specify registries
     which should be consulted when completing image names which do not  include
     a registry or domain portion.

SEE ALSO
     containers.conf(5),  containers-mounts.conf(5), newuidmap(1), newgidmap(1),
     containers-registries.conf(5), containers-storage.conf(5)

HISTORY
     December 2017,  Originally  compiled  by  Tom  Sweeney  tsweeney@redhat.com
     <mailto:tsweeney@redhat.com>

buildah 			   March 2017			      buildah(1)

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