How-to guides

These guides will walk you through steps of using Chisel through its operations life cycle.

Installation

Installation follows a broadly similar pattern on all architectures, and you can choose to install the pre-built binary, Snap or build it from the source by yourself.

• How to install Chisel

Creating a chiseled container image

Chiseled file systems are ideal for creating minimal and distroless-like container images.

• Use Chisel in a Dockerfile

Ubuntu Pro

Chisel supports fetching and installing Ubuntu Pro package slices from the ESM archives. These guides provide more hands-on information on how to use Chisel with Ubuntu Pro.

• Install Ubuntu Pro package slices