bitnami/git

Bitnami Secure Image for Git

Git is an open source distributed version control system that can handle both small and large projects with speed and efficiency.

Overview of Git Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

console
docker run --name git REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/git:latest

Note: You need to substitute the REGISTRY_NAME placeholder with a reference to your container registry.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.

Get this image

The recommended way to get the Bitnami Git Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/git.

console
docker pull REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/git:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/git/tags/ in the Docker Hub Registry.

console
docker pull REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/git:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.

console
git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/APP:latest .

Configuration

The following section describes how to run commands

Running commands

To run commands inside this container you can use docker run, for example to execute git version you can follow below example

console
docker run --name git REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/git:latest git --version

FIPS configuration in Bitnami Secure Images

The Bitnami Git Docker image from the Bitnami Secure Images catalog includes extra features and settings to configure the container with FIPS capabilities. You can configure the next environment variables:

• OPENSSL_FIPS: whether OpenSSL runs in FIPS mode or not. yes (default), no.

Notable Changes

Starting January 16, 2024

• The docker-compose.yaml file has been removed, as it was solely intended for internal testing purposes.

2.31.0-debian-10-r2

• The ENTRYPOINT of the container has been modified to load a proper NSS environment that enables git ssh connections when running the container as non-root.
• The CMD is also changed to enter the Bash shell.

If you were using the container without replacing the entrypoint, make sure you specify the git command now:

diff
-docker run REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/git:latest --version
+docker run REGISTRY_NAME/bitnami/git:latest git --version

License

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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

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