Building Containers from Your Environment

You can build containers directly from your Grove development environment. This means your deployment containers will match your development environment exactly.

Tip

Grove containers are incredibly efficient because they only include what you actually need. No package managers, no extra dependencies, just your packages and their requirements. Plus, they’re completely reproducible!

Setting up container support

If you didn’t initialize with containers, you can add support to an existing environment:

kanuka grove container init

Or if you’re starting fresh:

kanuka grove init --containers

Building your container

Once container support is enabled, building is simple:

kanuka grove container build

This builds a container from your current Grove environment with all your packages included.

Using your container

After building, sync it to Docker:

kanuka grove container sync

Now you can use it with Docker:

docker run -it your-container-name

Testing your container

You can enter the container interactively for testing:

kanuka grove container enter

This starts a shell inside the container, which is great for debugging.

Next steps

To learn more about kanuka grove container, see the container concepts and the command reference.

Or, continue reading to learn about Grove’s other features.