
Best practices for running Buildah in a container
One of the cool things about separating the container runtimes into different tools is that you can start to combine them to help secure one other.
Lots of people would like to build OCI/container images within a system like Kubernetes. Imagine you have a CI/CD system that is constantly building container images, a tool like Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes would be useful for distributing the load of builds. Until recently, most people were leaking the Docker socket into the container and then allowing the containers to do docker build
. As I pointed out years ago, this is one of the most dangerous things you can do. Giving people root access on the system or sudo without requiring a password is more secure than allowing access to the Docker socket.
Because of this, many people have been attempting to run Buildah within a container. We have been watching and answering questions on this for a while. We have built an example of what we think is the best way to run Buildah inside of a container and have made these container images public at quay.io/buildah.
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