[OE-core] [PATCH] container-image-busybox: add a reference container image

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 1:06 AM Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 8:03 PM Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:39 PM Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Add a small busybox based container image.
> >
> > This really isn't a great container reference image. It isn't
> > manipulating many of
> > the things that you should be in a container image (linux-dummy, etc).
> >
> > Have you seen the reference images that have either been presented at the
> > various ELC conferences and/or the ones that are in meta-virtualization ?
> > Or the ones from Togan labs, meta-overc, etc ?
> >
> > IMHO, It would be better to collaborate on this in a non-core layer
> > for this release and
> > then consolidate things with the OCI image types, and when we sort out
> > if/what/when
> > makes sense from meta-virt into oe-core.
>
> I think this is very much suitable for OE-Core, and I would like us to
> have container reference image
> in core, however, I agree there is prework that should be includes
> from prior work in other layers and
> we should consolidate all that into a reference usable image in oe-core.

I definitely agree on that something belongs in oe-core, and yes, 100%
agreed that we shouldn't do this ad-hoc and should at a minimum have
documentation and some consolidated images / use cases from the
existing layers with container image types.

Cheers,

Bruce

>
> >
> > This is a topic of many opinions and different implementations and deserves some
> > cycles spent on documenting the choices, what we expect the base image to
> > do, etc.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
> > > ---
> > >  meta/recipes-core/images/container-image-busybox.bb | 8 ++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > >  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/images/container-image-busybox.bb
> > >
> > > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/container-image-busybox.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/container-image-busybox.bb
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000000..a4d63b0eea
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/container-image-busybox.bb
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> > > +SUMMARY = "A small busybox based container image."
> > > +LICENSE = "MIT"
> > > +
> > > +IMAGE_INSTALL = "busybox"
> > > +IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
> > > +IMAGE_FSTYPES = "container"
> > > +
> > > +inherit core-image
> > > --
> > > 2.17.1
> > >
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