Containers: Apko from Chainguard

Giuseppe Santoro
ITNEXT
Published in
6 min readJul 4, 2023

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Introduction

Apko is a command line tool from Chainguard that allow you to build container images via a yaml configuration.

The application employs the APK package format sourced from Alpine, drawing inspiration from ko and, consequently, earning its name.

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