Writing modules

Basics

Ixian provides a module system. See their documentation for the basics on how to build a module: https://ixian.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules.html

Modules for Ixian-docker may provide a few things:

• Build stages - A stage that produces an image.

• Build fragments - A fragment that contributes to another build stage.

• Runtime tools - Anything needed for runtime, including development tools.

• Config - Configuration settings to make all of the above configurable.

Designing Build Stages

Check out the documentation for multi-stage builds to learn more about how build stages work and how to construct a custom build stage.

Image Layout

Ixian modules use a Dockerfile layout designed to support modular multi stage builds. This requires a common image layout scheme so modules play nice together.

Checkout the documentation on the common image layout for more information.