Re: Dockerfile to Bastille interpreter/translator

> On Jan 10, 2024, at 6:27 PM, Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> wrote:
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> I understand there's an ongoing effort to support Linux Docker images "natively" through amd64 translation layer to the FBSD kernel. I think that is a great endeavour but it got me thinking that perhaps there's an alternative way to leverage the full power of FBSD and Bastille. 
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> If you look at Dockerfile, they mostly follow the same pattern: 
> 1 - package manager installs
> 2 - system commands
> 3 - package, inheritance
> 4 - repeat
> 5 - launch entrypoint
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> The package manager AFAICT are only 3: alpine, debian, red hat
> The commands are almost translatable 1:1 to Bastille
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> So my question is, has anybody thought or have started work on an Dockerfile interpreter that can build native Bastille/ZFS "images" from a Dockerfile ? 

If I read you right, you may look at buildah / podman, and the runtime runj [1] .

Good luck :)

1. https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj

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> I think most of the work would be creating and maintaining the package names and their equivs which for the most part will be very similar to FBSD ports.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Best,
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> Alex
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Best regards,
Zhenlei