davidle asked a question.
Flexera Kubernetes Agent - Docker File (Creation)
We are in the onboarding stages for deploying the Flexera Kubernetes Agent in our AKS environment.
Before we can publish the docker image (flexera-krm-x.y.z.tar) into our internal registry (ACR), our Platform DevOps Team has insisted that we create a Docker File that contains a list of instructions to be executed in sequence to build an image:
- # Define base image
- FROM ubuntu: 16.04
- ENV LANG='en_US.UTF-8' LANGUAGE='en_US:en' 'en_US.UTF-8'
- # Adding Group and User
- RUN groupadd --gid 1000 platform
- && useradd --uid 1000 --gid platform --shell /bin/bash --create-home platform
- # Download and install dependency
- ——
- # Tell image what to do when it starts as a container
- ----
Is this request even possible? Please forgive me if the context does not make sense, as I am still trying to wrap my head around this necessary process from the team.
Hi @davidle
It shouldn't be necessary to create a Dockerfile to build a container image. The image is provided to you already completely built, as a tar archive that was exported using the "docker save" command. It can then be imported back into Docker using the "docker load" command, and then pushed to the registry as-is.
Perhaps the DevOps team is under the misapprehension that the tar archive is not itself a complete image and therefore has to be populated into container image prior to being pushed to the registry?