Request: Docker image package type

[mcandre]

Docker provides a portable way to package many applications, similar to snaps / flatpaks.

As much as I like containerizing applications directly, I find value in consistency for fpm to offer to automate the process, similar to how fpm automates package creation for many other package types.

[jordansissel]

Can you tell me more? Are you looking to make docker images, or convert docker images to something else?

Related, but possibly not exactly what you're looking for: I wrote a short hack a few years ago that converts a docker image's last RUN step in docker build - https://gist.github.com/jordansissel/0e0fc22344a17eadd1a3b9a1bbb7ed06 with some later work explored in #1957

[mcandre]

To simply make Docker images.