Swift Container Plugin
Published on: 2025-04-28 03:28:35
Swift Container Plugin
Build and publish container images using Swift Package Manager.
Overview
Container images are the standard way to package cloud software today. Once you have packaged your server in a container image, you can deploy it on any container-based public or private cloud service, or run it locally using a desktop container runtime.
Swift Container Plugin makes it easy to build container images for servers written in Swift, using Swift Package Manager.
Find out more and see it in action:
Usage
Swift Container Plugin can package any executable product defined in Package.swift in a container image and publish it to a container registry.
Build and publish a container image
After adding the plugin to your project, you can build and publish a container image in one step:
% swift package --swift-sdk x86_64-swift-linux-musl \ build-container-image --repository registry.example.com/myservice ... Plugin ‘ContainerImageBuilder’ wants permission to allow all network conn
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