Evaggelos Balaskas - System Engineer

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Jan

2016

Create an archlinux docker image from archlinux

Posted by ebal at 19:33:33 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin

Some time ago, I wrote this article: How to create an archlinux docker image from the latest bootstrap but I think the below approach is even better.

Step 0

This step is optional.
If you want to reduce the size of the docker image:


# vi /etc/pacman.conf

and add the below lines:


NoExtract = usr/lib/firmware/*
NoExtract = usr/lib/modules/*
NoExtract = usr/share/locale/*
NoExtract = usr/share/man/*

Step 1

Create the latest archlinux on a temporary directory:


# mkdir -pv /tmp/latestarchlinux/var/lib/pacman
# pacman -Syy -r /tmp/latestarchlinux/
# pacman -S base -r /tmp/latestarchlinux/ --noconfirm

Step 2

dockerized the above directory


# cd /tmp/latestarchlinux/
# tar -c . | docker import - archlinux:latest
99a9d7cd2e357f2463b4bb8f3ad1e8bea4bfc10531dfac1931004405727bf035

Step 3

Actually you ‘ve done !
Just play with it already.


# docker run -t -i --rm archlinux:latest bash
[root@de9b7a1d6058 /]#