Containers

The Analytical Platform team offers a managed pipeline for building, scanning and pushing containers to a registry. This is done via GitHub Actions and is available to all teams. This is managed in Terraform.

Images are scanned for vulnerabilities using Trivy, currently with a default severity of CRITICAL

Dockerfiles are linted by the Super Linter with Hadolint

Creating a new container image repo

1. To create a new container image repo, clone the data-platform-github-access repository.

2. There are two files for creating repositories, one for Analytical Platform and another for Data Platform. See example below for creating an Analytical Platform container repo.

   "analytical-platform-<container-name>" = {
         name                = "analytical-platform-<container-name>"
         description         = "Analytical Platform <container-name>"
         use_template        = true
         template_repository = "analytical-platform-image-build-template"
         access = {
           admins = [module.analytical_platform_team.id]
         }
       }
   

3. As shown in example above, use the template_repository = "analytical-platform-image-build-template" argument. The template equips you with the default initial files for building a container used in Analytical Platform. The template repo can be viewed here.

4. Update the Dockerfile, Makefile, container-structure-test.yml and any other files as required in your new container repo.

5. There is no longer a requirement for config.json or CHANGELOG.md files.

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