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

[Khem Raj]

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.

>
> 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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