Introducing Automotive Image Builder

Automotive image builder is a tool used to create operating system (OS) images. It relies on the capabilities of OSBuild underneath it. Because OSBuild uses files called manifests as input to define how to build the image, that terminology extends to the input files used by automotive-image-builder as well.

The automotive image builder manifests are YAML files that define the content and configuration of the OS image. A manifest file can be as simple as the following minimal manifest example:

Minimal AIB manifest

name: minimal

content:
  rpms: []


# Set a password so that you can log in to the system. Setting a
# password is not necessary to build the minimal image, but you
# cannot log in without configuring a password.
auth:
  # "password"
  root_password: $6$xoLqEUz0cGGJRx01$H3H/bFm0myJPULNMtbSsOFd/2BnHqHkMD92Sfxd.EKM9hXTWSmELG8cf205l6dktomuTcgKGGtGDgtvHVXSWU.

To review available manifest options and configurations, see: Automotive Image Builder manifest format