UPDATED 06/11/22
Guessing most of the regulars saw my June screenshot, I’ve been working on an ArchLabs OCI Image for podman and/or docker. The end result is to be able to use it with those tools or something like distrobox where you can use graphical applications or a full blown wm/de from a container.
It’s just a Dockerfile at the moment but eventually I’m planning on publishing images.
Currently you can set your username, password, shell, and window manager. Please refer to the “ARG” values in the Dockerfile for the default values of each. You can change some other stuff at build time but it’s not really relevant to this post.
I’ve only implemented dk & openbox as window manager choices at the moment. I’ll add the rest shortly.
USAGE
To build it you’ll need to clone the al-oci repo, then inside the al-oci directory clone the archlabs iso repo. Then build the Dockerfile.
https://bitbucket.org/troutcobbler/al-oci
https://bitbucket.org/archlabslinux/iso
For example with podman you’d do the following to build a dk container:
buildah bud --no-cache --rm=false --build-arg USER=cog --build-arg PASS=cog --build-arg SHELL=bash --build-arg WM=dk -t archlabs .
Then to run it:
podman run -it --name archlabs --hostname archlabs archlabs /bin/bash