Raptor Builders

After carefully building a set of layers with Raptor, they are ready to process into more useful build artifacts.

The way this is done in Raptor, is through build containers. These are, themselves, Raptor containers, made specifically for producing a certain kind of output.

Raptor itself does not come with any build containers, but the companion project, raptor-builders does. It’s called the “companion” project to highlight the fact that it is not above other Raptor projects. Anyone can make build containers, and if you need to build something that is uncommon, or specialized to a niche situtation, you might have to.

Most people, however, should be able to get started quickly, and save a lot of time, by using the build containers from raptor-builders.

Meet the builders

Compatibility

The various builders can construct a wide variety of outputs, suitable for use with both containers (systemd-nspawn), virtual machines (e.g. qemu), and physical hardware.

However, not all combinations are possible. For example, a physical machine will not boot a qcow2 image for virtual machines, but qemu will be able to boot either qcow2 or raw images.

The tables below provides an overview of the possible options.

Machines:

Containers: