Habitat Docker Image

The Habitat Docker image is a very minimal image which is based on the stock Alpine Linux container and has core/hab installed with a binlink to /bin/hab. There are no other packages or software installed, so this could be used as a base to build higher order images. Alternatively, it is a perfect "clean room" for running Habitat Supervsirs, Studio builds, or anything else that Habitat can do.

Examples

The default command is /bin/hab which will display the help usage:

> docker run -ti bscott/habitat

To get a login shell, just add sh (which comes from the Alpine Linux base):

> docker run -ti bscott/habitat sh

Don't forget, you can use Docker's --rm flag to remove the container once quit to save on removing tons of stopped containers later:

> docker run --rm -ti bscott/habitat sh

Remember that hab is on path, so this means you can start any Habitat package with the Supervisor that is published to the Builder depot:

> docker run --rm -ti bscott/habitat hab start core/redis

If you want to run Studio builds, then you need to provide the --privileged flag to docker run. If you'd like to mount your current working directory into the Docker image for building, you can also use the -v (--volume) option:

> docker run --rm -ti --privileged -v $(pwd):/src bscott/habitat sh

Or directly enter a Studio by calling it directly:

> docker run --rm -ti --privileged -v $(pwd):/src bscott/habitat hab studio enter

New version tags of this image are pushed with each Habitat release, so you can run a particular version with:

> docker run -ti bscott/habitat:0.34.1 hab --version