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Description: (Filed for "Felix" at https://learn.redhat.com/t5/Automation-Management-Ansible/DO374-Why-podman-build-instead-of-ansilbe-builder-build/m-p/25903#M708)

On DO374 (Developing Advanced Automation with AAP 2.0), there's a practice of modifying Containerfile to perform some commands e.g. inserting cert file to the image. Then it asks us to build the EE using podman build.

I find this strange, as ansible-builder build command is the better way. We don't have to edit Containerfile as well. We can just use below on the EE spec file.

additional_build_steps:
  prepend:
    - RUN echo 'First do something here'
  append:
    - RUN echo 'Then do something else here'

(Further feedback marked as "Solution" from "CliffordW")

I totally agree that doing this in the execution-environment.yml file makes more sense. I guessing there might be cases where custom changes to Containerfile might be required, though.

I read that part of the course as just pointing out that running "ansible-builder build" overwrites any changes to Containerfile, so if you make changes there, you need to use "podman build" instead.

 
(We might want to make this point more clear.)