Can you convert/build a docker image into a full OS image? - image

Question

I have made a docker container meant with some code for deployment. However, I realised that the structure of the project I'm working with, it's more suitable to deploy a full ISO image, instead of running docker on top of a cloud VM running stock debian, leading to unnecessary layers of virtualization.
I know that dockers are meant to be deployed on kubernetes, but before diving into that route, is there a simple way to convert a deb9 docker image into a full deb9 OS image? Like an opposite of docker import?

Answer 1

You can convert your docker container to an full os image. An Dockerfile debian example would be
FROM debian:stretch
RUN apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends \
linux-image-amd64 \
systemd-sysv
In principal you have to install a kernel and an init system.
Full instructions can be found github

Answer 2

Docker images don't contain a Linux kernel and aren't configured to do things like run a full init system or go out and get their network configuration, so this won't work well.
Put differently: the same mismatch that makes docker import not really work well because the resulting container will have too much stuff and won't be set up for Docker, means you can't export a container or image into a VM and expect it to work in that environment.
But! If you've written a Dockerfile for your image, that's very close to saying "I'm going to start from this base Linux distribution and run this shell script to get an image". Tools like Packer are set up to take a base Linux VM image, run some sort of provisioner, and create a new image. If you have a good Docker setup already, and decide a VM is a better fit, you're probably done a lot of the leg-work already to have an automated build of your VM image.

Answer 3

#info
we can use docker like vm / flatpak / appimge / termux with gui, audio and hardware acceleration :)
how to do it ?
remove old docker
sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc
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install the commponents
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release
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3.. add docker repo docker
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
echo
"deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian
$(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
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install docker
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
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create docker
docker image
su
cd /home/
kwrite Dockerfile
FROM debian:testing
ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive­
RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install midori bash mpv pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils pulsemixer pulseaudio-module-jack apulse neofetch vlc smplayer wget sudo cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins xfce4 xfce4-goodies falkon kde-full xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin gnome tigervnc-standalone-server openssh-server openssh-client network-manager net-tools iproute2 gerbera openjdk-11-jdk mediainfo dcraw htop gimp krita libreoffice python3-pip terminator uget alsa-utils
ENV PULSE_SERVER=tcp:host.docker.internal:4713
CMD bash
save it
the run interminal
sudo docker build -t supersifobian .
how to use gui
xhost +
run image gui
sudo apt-get -y install xpra xserver-xephyr xinit xauth
xclip x11-xserver-utils x11-utils
run docker
sudo docker run -ti --net=host --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri -e DISPLAY=:0 --privileged --cap-add=ALL --device /dev/snd --volume /dev:/dev -v /dev:/dev --group-add audio -v /var/run/docker.sock:/host/var/run/doc -e PULSE_SERVER=tcp:$P ULSE_SERVER -v /dev:/host/dev -v /proc:/host/proc:ro -v /boot:/host/boot:ro -v /lib/modules:/host/lib/modules:ro -v /usr:/host/usr:ro -v /media:/host/media:ro -v /home:/host/home:ro imageid / image name
nb
enter container
docker exec -it nama/id container bash
add user
adduser namauser
make use as sudo
usermod -aG sudo username
add group audio
usermod -aG audio username
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audio in docker cli
using prafer
a. install paprefs
apt-get install paprefs
b.choose network in prafers
c. how to know the pulse audio port, we can type
pax11publish
d. export to terminal in docker
export "PULSE_SERVER=tcp:192.168.43.135:37721"
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save docker
docker commit idcontainer nameimage:version
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check images
docker images
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thanks :)