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// Module included in the following assemblies:
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// * builds/build-strategies.adoc
[id="images-custom_{context}"]
= Using custom builder images
By allowing you to define a specific builder image responsible for the entire
build process, {product-title}'s Custom build strategy was designed to fill a
gap created with the increased popularity of creating container images. When
there is a requirement for a build to still produce individual artifacts
(packages, JARs, WARs, installable ZIPs, and base images, for example), a
_Custom builder image_ using the Custom build strategy is the perfect match to
fill that gap.
A Custom builder image is a plain container image embedded with build process
logic, for example for building RPMs or base container images.
Additionally, the Custom builder allows implementing any extended build process,
for example a CI/CD flow that runs unit or integration tests.
To fully leverage the benefits of the Custom build strategy, you must understand
how to create a Custom builder image that will be capable of building desired
objects.
== Custom builder image
Upon invocation, a custom builder image will receive the following environment
variables with the information needed to proceed with the build:
.Custom Builder Environment Variables
[cols="1,3",options="header"]
|===
|Variable Name |Description
|`BUILD`
|The entire serialized JSON of the `Build` object definition. If you must
use a specific API version for serialization, you can set the
`buildAPIVersion` parameter in the custom strategy
specification of the build configuration.
|`SOURCE_REPOSITORY`
|The URL of a Git repository with source to be built.
|`SOURCE_URI`
|Uses the same value as `SOURCE_REPOSITORY`. Either can be used.
|`SOURCE_CONTEXT_DIR`
|Specifies the subdirectory of the Git repository to be used when building. Only
present if defined.
|`SOURCE_REF`
|The Git reference to be built.
|`ORIGIN_VERSION`
|The version of the {product-title} master that created this build object.
|`OUTPUT_REGISTRY`
|The container image registry to push the image to.
|`OUTPUT_IMAGE`
|The container image tag name for the image being built.
|`PUSH_DOCKERCFG_PATH`
|The path to the container registry credentials for running a `podman push` or `docker push` operation.
|===
== Custom builder workflow
Although custom builder image authors have great flexibility in defining the
build process, your builder image must still adhere to the following required
steps necessary for seamlessly running a build inside of {product-title}:
. The `Build` object definition contains all the necessary information about input parameters for the build.
. Run the build process.
. If your build produces an image, push it to the build's output location if it is defined. Other output locations can be passed with environment variables.