Running Automotive Image Builder from a container

The Automotive SIG maintains a container image that you can use to run automotive-image-builder in the automotive-image-builder Quay.io repo. This containerized build process is useful for hosts other than RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora, or if you do not want to install the RPM-based version of the automotive-image-builder tool.

To easily run automotive-image-builder from a container, you can use the auto-image-builder.sh script that is available in the automotive-image-builder repository.

1. Download the script:

   $ curl -O "https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/src/automotive-image-builder/-/raw/main/auto-image-builder.sh?ref_type=heads"
   

2. Build an image. In this example, build the minimal.aib.yml manifest that is available in sig-docs/demos/minimal:

   $ sudo bash ./auto-image-builder.sh build --distro autosd9 --mode image --target qemu --export qcow2 minimal.aib.yml minimal.qcow2
   

For more information about the container, see the automotive-image-builder repository.