Deploy and Manage Your Containers in the Next-Generation Container OS

Buildah version 1.2 Release Announcement

We’re pleased to announce the release of Buildah version 1.2 which is now available from GitHub for any Linux distro. We are shipping this release on Fedora, RHEL 7, CentOS and Ubuntu in the near future.

The Buildah project has continued to grow over the past several weeks, welcoming several new contributors to the mix. The highlights of this release are the added ability to control image layers when building an image, CVE’s Fixes, the initial support for user namespace handling and several other enhancements and bug fixes.

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Welcome to Fedora CoreOS

Earlier this year Red Hat acquired CoreOS, Inc.. In the past few months we have been working hard to evaluate the different technologies in the CoreOS Container Linux and Project Atomic spaces. Since Container Linux and Atomic Host overlap in functionality quite a bit we have decided to merge future development of the two projects so that we can combine our efforts and bring two great communities of people together to solve future challenges in the transactional update and container operating system landscape.

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Buildah version 1.1 Release Announcement

We’re pleased to announce the release of Buildah version 1.1 which is now available from GitHub for any Linux distro. We are shipping this release on Fedora, RHEL 7, CentOS and Ubuntu in the near future.

The Buildah project has continued to grow over the past several weeks, welcoming several new contributors to the mix, launching new functionality and creating a number of improvements and bug fixes.

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Default mounts for all of your containers.

I was presenting OpenShift and really the underlying container technology we are building CRI-O, Buildah and Podman to some customers the other day. After the presentation, one of the customers came over to me and said, the biggest problem they have with their users building containers, was they needed to use certificates in the container in order to access their software repositories. But they did not want the certificates to end up embedded in the containers. I pointed out that Red Hat’s version of Docker allowed you to do volume mounts into containers during a docker build. Also Buildah had the same functionality. But he pointed out that they did not want everyone of their engineers to have to add the volumes, or if they were running a container and wanted to update software and they forgot the volume mount then they could not access the certificates.

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As a father who’s ushered one child through their teen years, and with two more in the teens now, I know about problems. Problems with the WiFi not working, or the shoes that are two months old and now two sizes too small. Those are the easy ones, the harder ones come in with sleepovers with their significant others, the broken down car after curfew or the death of a classmate. In my at-work life, I was explaining to my scrum master that I’d not been picking off any cards off our board in the past sprint because I’d spent all my time working on issues. He remarked that as a software engineer we’re not so much coders as we’re problem solvers. I guess I can’t escape problems either at work or at home.

Recently one of the folks that talks about Buildah, Podman, and other related container technologies at conferences sent me an email about a problem he was having with a demo script he was hoping to show.

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