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= Container Maintainer Guidelines =
= Container Maintainer Guidelines =


In the Fedora world, the concept of being a [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers Package Maintainer] is well known as all the software currently released and published as an official "Build Artifact" of the Fedora Project for inclusion in the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution has always been packaged in [http://rpm.org/ RPM] Package Manager Format.
The guidelines have been moved [https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/containers/guidelines/guidelines/ here]
 
However, as technology changes so must the Fedora Project. The concept of "containers" on Linux has become quite prominent and Fedora will be publishing container images as officially released Build Artifact. One thing to note is that containers images are not a new software packaging format but more so a delivery mechanism where many packages can be combined to deliver an easily ran "software solution".
 
Below you will find Guidelines similar in nature to that of the Fedora [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines Packaging Guidelines] but catered towards the concept of Containers. Initially Fedora will be targeting the [https://www.docker.com/ Docker] container implemention but there are many and others will likely be incorporated in the future.
 
== Container Guidelines ==
 
The Container Guidelines are a collection of common issues and the severity that should be placed on them. While these guidelines should not be ignored, they should also not be blindly followed. If you think that your container should be exempt from part of the Guidelines, please bring the issue to the Fedora Container Committee (Pending Existence).
 
=== Docker Containers (Dockerfile) ===
 
[https://www.docker.com/ Docker] images are built using a [https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/ Dockerfile] much in the same way an [http://rpm.org/ RPM] is built using a spec file. In this section are Fedora Guidelines for creating Docker images using a Dockerfile.
 
==== LABELS ====
 
Dockerfiles have a concept of a [https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#label LABEL] which can add arbitrary metadata to an image as a key-value pair. Fedora Guidelines on the topic of LABELs follows the [http://www.projectatomic.io/ Project Atomic] [https://github.com/projectatomic/ContainerApplicationGenericLabels Container Application Generic Labels] standards for LABEL definition.
 
Required LABELs for a Fedora Docker Image are as follows:
 
{|
!Name
!Description
|-
|Name
|Name of the Image
|-
|Version
|Version of the image
|-
|Release
|Release Number for this version
|-
|Architecture
|Architecture the software in the image should target (Optional: if omitted, it will be built for all supported Fedora Architectures)
|}
 
These LABELs should be defined in a single line of the Dockerfile. The following is a very simple Dockerfile example containing the required LABELs:
 
<pre>
FROM fedora
MAINTAINER "Adam Miller" <maxamillion@fedoraproject.org>
 
ENV VERSION=0.1 RELEASE=1
LABEL BZComponent="myawesomecontainer" \
        Name="fedora/myawesomecontainer" \
        Version="$VERSION" \
        Release="$RELEASE" \
        Architecture="x86_64"
CMD printf "My Awesome Container!\n"
</pre>
 
==== Content ====
 
Dockerfiles in Fedora should not contain net new code, which is unfortunately subjective in nature. The meaning of this is that software should be packaged properly as RPMs and placed in the Fedora repositories, Dockerfiles are simply a deliver mechanism for pre-defined "ready to run" configurations. This can be achieved as an [https://github.com/projectatomic/atomicapp/blob/master/docs/start_guide.md Atomic App] or similar. Any content that is to accompany the Dockerfile must either be configuration files or startup/orchestration scripts. The goal of this is such that we follow the key points of the [https://docs.pagure.org/releng/philosophy.html Fedora Release Engineering Philosophy].
 
= Discussion =
 
See [[Talk:PackagingDrafts/Go]] for discussion.
 
[[Category:Packaging guidelines drafts]]

Latest revision as of 15:23, 17 June 2019

Container Maintainer Guidelines

The guidelines have been moved here