ubuntu/busybox repository overview

ubuntu/busybox is a rock for busybox maintained by Canonical⁠.

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system (i.e., ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc.).

This is a minimal rock containing only the BusyBox binary and the symlinks for all of its supported utilities.

[Learn more about busybox⁠]

⁠Tags and Architectures

NOTE: These tags follow a specific naming convention that respects the concept of channels⁠.

⁠Get started

This rock's entrypoint is Pebble, a container-optimized init process that enables the orchestration of a collection of local service processes as an organized set.

[Learn more about Pebble⁠]

⁠Inspect

To view the Pebble services⁠ and checks⁠ defined in this rock:

docker run --rm ubuntu/busybox:1.37-26.04_stable plan

⁠Run

To run this rock, use any of the usual container runtimes, for example, docker:

docker run --name busybox-container \
    ubuntu/busybox:1.37-26.04_stable \
    exec busybox

The container outputs the help message of busybox, with the available commands provided by busybox.

⁠Get logs

To view the logs of the running container, run:

docker exec busybox-container pebble logs

Or, for a specific service:

docker exec busybox-container pebble logs <service>

⁠Monitor health checks

Rocks may have predefined health checks that you can list by running:

docker exec busybox-container pebble checks

The overall health of your container can be inspected via:

docker exec busybox-container pebble health

[Report a bug⁠] [Contribute⁠]

Canonical is the provider of this container image. It is the user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within, as well as with Canonical’s IP Policy⁠.