baseos

Builds a base operating system file system from a Dockerfile.

Flags

  • --dockerfile: full path to the base operating system Dockerfile
  • --filesystem-size-mbs: base file system root file system size, default 500M
  • --profile: name of the profile to use, no default
  • --storage-provider: select storage provider, no default, required; respective storage provider configuration must be specified, check Storage providers for details
  • --tag: tag name under which the resulting file system will be stored

Default tag name

If tag name is not given to the command, the name will be inherited from the Dockerfile FROM command.

Example

sudo firebuild baseos \
    --profile=standard \
    --dockerfile $(pwd)/baseos/_/alpine/3.13/Dockerfile