Build container images on your Kubernetes cluster — pick a strategy, point at your source, and let Shipwright do the rest.

Welcome to Shipwright: Building Container Images on Kubernetes.

Shipwright is a CNCF Sandbox framework that turns container image building into a first-class, declarative Kubernetes workload. Instead of running docker build on a laptop or wiring a build daemon into your pipeline, you describe what to build, where to publish it, and which tool should do the work — and the cluster handles the rest. This book walks the whole system in flowing prose: the build problem on Kubernetes that Shipwright was created to solve, the four resources at the heart of its API (Build, BuildRun, BuildStrategy, and ClusterBuildStrategy), how a BuildRun becomes a running pod through Tekton, the pluggable strategies that wrap Buildah, Cloud Native Buildpacks, Kaniko, BuildKit, ko, and source-to-image, the shp command-line client, the security model around rootless and privileged builds, and the practices that make Shipwright dependable in production.

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Contents

1. Chapter 1 — What Shipwright Is
2. Chapter 2 — The Container Build Problem on Kubernetes
3. Chapter 3 — The Build Resource
4. Chapter 4 — BuildRun and Execution
5. Chapter 5 — Build Strategies
6. Chapter 6 — Tekton Under the Hood
7. Chapter 7 — The shp Command-Line Client
8. Chapter 8 — Shipwright in Practice