How-to guides

If you have a specific goal but are already familiar with Rockcraft, our How-to guides have more in-depth detail than our tutorial and can be applied to a broader set of applications.

They’ll help you achieve an end result but may require you to understand and adapt the steps to fit your specific requirements.

• Get started - quick guide
• Build a 12-factor app rock

Chisel

Upgrade your Chisel slicing skills by learning how to cut, install and publish slices.

• Cut existing slices with Chisel
• Create a package slice for Chisel
• Install a custom package slice
• Publish a slice definition

Documentation

If you have found something missing in this documentation, or have useful information to add whether it is a tutorial, a guide or something else, we compiled a couple of guides for you to facilitate your contribution.

• Contribute to Rockcraft documentation
• Build the documentation

Rocks

Learn about how to pack a rock, how to migrate a Dockerfile to a rock, or how to use services in your rockcraft.yaml. Those guides will help you explore all those aspects in Rockcraft and more.

• Use Rockcraft's GitHub Action
• Convert an entrypoint to a Pebble layer
• Add a new internal user to a rock
• Publish a rock to a registry
• Migrate a Docker image to a chiselled rock
• Chisel an existing rock
• Include local and remote files
• Override a plugin's build