Perl

OpenShift provides s2i enabled Perl images for building and running Perl applications. The Perl s2i builder image assembles your application source with any required dependencies to create a new image containing your Perl application. This resulting image can be run either by OpenShift or by Docker.

Currently, OpenShift supports version 5.16 of Perl.

This image comes in two flavors, depending on your needs:

RHEL 7 Based Image

The RHEL 7 image is available through Red Hat’s subscription registry via:

CentOS 7 Based Image

This image is available on DockerHub. To download it:

To use these images, you can either access them directly from these image registries, or push them into your OpenShift Docker registry. Additionally, you can create an image stream that points to the image, either in your Docker registry or at the external location. Your OpenShift resources can then reference the ImageStream. You can find example image stream definitions for all the provided OpenShift images.

The Perl image supports a number of environment variables which can be set to control the configuration and behavior of the Perl runtime.

To set these environment variables, you can place them into .sti/environment file inside your source code repository, or define them in the environment section of the BuildConfig Source Strategy definition.