Snapcraft Build Container for Docker

Table of Contents

• Docker Build
• Building a Snap with snapcraft-docker

This is a Dockerfile and a wrapper script called snapcraft-docker which helped me build my first snap.

Note	The code and instructions are provided as is.

Docker Build

sudo docker pull snapcore/snapcraft
git clone https://github.com/uroesch/snapcraft-docker.git
cd snapcraft-docker
sudo docker build -t snapcore/snapcraft:custom .

Note	To make the container work for your environment you may need to set the environment variable BUILD_USER_ID to your own UID before running docker build. The default UID is 1000.

Building a Snap with snapcraft-docker

cd mysnap
snapcraft-docker

Note	The above example assumes you have copied the snapcraft-docker script into a directory referenced in your PATH.