ansible-bender

This tool bends containers using Ansible playbooks and turns them into container images. It has a pluggable builder selection — it is up to you to pick the tool which will be used to construct your container image. Right now the only supported builder is buildah. More to come in the future. Ansible-bender (ab) relies on Ansible connection plugins for performing builds.

tl;dr Ansible is the frontend, buildah is the backend.

The concept is described in following blog posts:

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This project doesn't have an active maintainer right now that would watch issues daily.

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Features

You can build your container images with buildah as a backend.
Ansible playbook is your build recipe.
You are able to set various image metadata via CLI or as specific Ansible vars:

* working directory * environment variables * labels * user * default command * exposed ports

You can do volume mounts during build.
Caching mechanism:

* Every task result is cached as a container image layer. * You can turn this off with --no-cache. * You can disable caching from a certain point by adding a tag no-cache to a task.

You can stop creating new image layers by adding tag stop-layering to a task.
If an image build fails, it's committed and named with a suffix -[TIMESTAMP]-failed (so

you can take a look inside and resolve the issue).