# buildah-action [](https://github.com/redhat-actions/buildah-action/tags) [](./LICENSE) [](./dist) Buildah is a GitHub Action for building OCI-compatible (Docker- and Kubernetes-compatible) images quickly and easily. Buildah action works only on Linux distributions, and it is not supported on Windows or Mac platforms at this time. Note that GitHub's [Ubuntu Environments](https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments#available-environments) (ubuntu-20.04 and ubuntu-18.04) come with buildah 1.17.0 installed. So, if you are not using those Ubuntu environments you need to make sure to install buildah tool in an early step. ## Action Inputs
Action input | Description |
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new-image-name | (Required) Name to give to the image that will be eventually created. |
base-name | (Optional) The base image to use to create the initial container. If not specified, the action will try to pick one automatically. Only Java language is supported at this time. |
content | (Required) The content to copy inside the container to create the final image. This is a multiline input to allow you to copy more than one file/directory. For example - content: | target/spring-petclinic-2.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar |
entrypoint | (Required) The entry point to set for the container. This is a multiline input to add multiple values. For example - entrypoint: | java -jar spring-petclinic-2.3.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar |
port | (Required) The port to expose when running the container. |
working-dir | (Optional) The working directory to use within the container. |
envs | (Optional) The environment variables to be set when running the container. This is a multiline input to add multiple environment variables.For example - envs: | GOPATH=/root/buildah |