SLE BCI 15 SP6 Base Container Image

Description

SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Images (SLE BCI) provide open, flexible, and secure container images. The images include container environments based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and are available at no cost, they can be freely re-distributed, and they are supported across different environments.

The Base Container Image is an image used as a foundation for most SLE BCIs. The image is intended to be extended for further use, such as a development or a testing environment.

Usage

The container image comes with the zypper package manager, the free SLE_BCI repository and the container-suseconnect utility. This allows you to access the full SLE repositories with a valid SLE subscription. The image is designed to be extended by installing packages required for your specific scenario.

To build a custom image using a Containerfile that includes the skopeo utility, create the following Containerfile:

FROM registry.suse.com/bci/bci-base:15.6
RUN set -euo pipefail; \
    zypper -n ref; \
    zypper -n in skopeo; \
    zypper -n clean; \
    rm -rf /var/log/{lastlog,tallylog,zypper.log,zypp/history,YaST2}

Then build the container using buildah:

buildah bud -t bci-skopeo .

The image can also be used interactively to create a container with skopeo installed in it:

$ podman run -ti --rm registry.suse.com/bci/bci-base:15.6
# zypper -n in skopeo
...
# skopeo inspect -f "{{ .Name }}" docker://registry.suse.com/bci/bci-base:15.6
registry.suse.com/bci/bci-base

The SLE_BCI repository

The container image comes with the free SLE_BCI repository. The repository contains a subset of all packages from SUSE Linux Enterprise. The packages are available free of charge, and they can be redistributed freely. However, they are provided without support. The repository also contains the latest version of packages only.

Getting access to the SLE repositories

The container-suseconnect utility in the image can automatically add the full SUSE Linux Enterprise repositories into the running container if you have a valid SLE subscription.

Find more information about container-suseconnect in the container-suseconnect section in the container guide or in the tutorial How to use container-suseconnect.

Licensing

SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

This documentation and the build recipe are licensed as MIT. The container itself contains various software components under various open source licenses listed in the associated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).

This image is based on SLE BCI, a stable and redistributable foundation for software innovation. SLE BCI is enterprise-ready, and it comes with an option for support.

See the SLE BCI EULA for further information.