How to Install & Set Up Buildah

Install Buildah to build OCI-compliant container images without a daemon — from a Dockerfile or scripted step by step.

sudo apt-get install -y buildah

sudo dnf install -y buildah

buildah --version

buildah bud -t my-image:latest .

container=$(buildah from alpine)
buildah run $container apk add --no-cache curl
buildah commit $container my-image:latest

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