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Thursday, November 21 • 11:50am - 12:25pm
Linux Distribution Build Tools for Custom Container Images - Nisha Kumar & Joshua Lock, VMware

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A typical container image builder takes a base OS from somewhere, runs scripts to add and modify all the things needed for an app to run, then deploys to a registry. This leads to large images which developers try to trim down by using multistage builds, removing files and squashing filesystem layers. Building container images in this way makes it difficult if not impossible to ascertain the license and security implications of using these images.

How do we generate app specific build and runtime images without having to maintain our own base OS images and build machinery?

Fortunately, this is a problem that has been solved in the Linux distribution world for some time. This talk will outline some popular tools and compare them against the requirements for a declarative and reproducible container OS builder which is not reliant on any external infrastructure.
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Nisha Kumar

Open Source Engineer, VMware
Nisha Kumar is an Open Source Engineer at VMware’s Open Source Technology Center. She is one of the maintainers of Tern, a container image inspection tool for OSS license compliance. She has spoken at several events including All Things Open, SCaLE, and a previous KubeCon.
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Joshua Lock

Open Source Software Engineer, VMware
Joshua Lock is the security team lead in VMware’s Open Source Technology Center. In a past life he was a founding engineer on the Yocto Project and spent many years working on and with the Yocto Project. Joshua has spoken at several events including Linux Security Summit, and Embedded... Read More →

Linux distro tools for building container images pdf
Thursday November 21, 2019 11:50am - 12:25pm
Room 6C - San Diego Convention Center Upper Level
  Application + Development