Note: this package is pre-alpha, and will either move to an organization or be merged into a different project at some point.

The buildah package provides a command line tool which can be used to

• create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point
• mount the working container's root filesystem for manipulation
• umount the working container's root filesystem
• use the updated contents of the container's root filesystem as a filesystem layer to create a new image
• delete a working container

Future goals include:

• docs
• CI tests
• refactoring the CLI tool's logic into a library that the CLI tool will wrap
• additional CLI commands (run, copy, add, build?)