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Building a docker container, push to Docker Hub and link to GitHub repo

Introduction

Learnt how to build a container from scratch using docker then push it to a repository. I also linked Docker repo back to my GitHub repo that held my container configuration files, and sync'd. So when I next update the container configuration in GitHub, docker will build a new image to host.

Prerequisite

Tools:

• Docker
• Docker Hub Free Account
• GitHub account

Use Case

I have a small idea on how to build a pipeline in VMware vRA Code Stream, which will use a container and the AWS CLI tools to build an AWS EKS cluster. This pipeline can be enabled as a catalog item to be consumed by end users to build EKS clusters within a business based on the defined parameters the business is happy with.

Today I just built the container I need with a number of tools I expect to use in the CI task.

Research

• Blog on gettng started building a docker image

• Docker documentation for building an image

• My container I pushed

• My container configuration files

• Packaging CLI programs into Docker images to avoid dependency hell

• Getting started with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Try yourself

I wrote a bit of a twitter thread here