Devuan Docker Base Images

For reasons outlined in my Sandwiching Docker Between Devuan blog post (in the bottom part), I decided to roll my own Devuan base images.

You can pull the latest base image for the current Devuan release with

docker pull registry.gitlab.com/paddy-hack/devuan

Versioned images are available from the container registry as well.

How did I get there?

I had to start somewhere, so the first step takes a Debian base image and converts that following the Devuan migration instructions. The image is pushed to the registry, mainly for reference purposes, and used to run Devuan's debootstrap. This produces a rootfs that is imported to the Docker cache, pushed, re-tagged and pushed again to the container registry.

BTW, you can pull the migrated image with

docker pull registry.gitlab.com/paddy-hack/devuan/migrated

if so inclined.