Custom Images on Abyss

Setting Up To Build Images

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:05:48 +0200

The ready-made images on the Docker Images list are great for getting started, but eventually you might want something they don’t ship. Maybe your agent needs a language runtime they don’t include, a specific version of a tool, or a private config file baked in. The good news is that abyss is completely happy running inside an image you build yourself.

Extending An Abyss Image

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:05:48 +0200

This is the easy path. You start from an image that already has abyss and bash in the right place, and you add whatever extra things your agent needs on top. Because you’re building on a known-good foundation, there’s very little that can go wrong.

Fully Custom Images

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:05:48 +0200

If extending one of my images doesn’t fit — maybe you want a different base operating system, a minimal image size, or you’re targeting a platform I don’t publish images for — you can build an image from scratch. This is more work, but it gives you complete control.