Accessing and Contributing to Source

Container-Optimized OS from Google is built on top of the Chromium OS open-source project. You can find the majority of the source code for Container-Optimized OS in the shared Chromium OS repositories https://chromium.googlesource.com.

Some of the useful resources that can help you determine the source code used to build the image include:

• Inside the OS image, the /opt/google/chrome/resources/about_os_credits.html file contains version and license information for all the packages used to build that image.

• Kernel source: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/chromeos-4.4.
  Kernel config: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/board-overlays/+/master/overlay-lakitu/sys-kernel/lakitu-kernel-4_4/files/lakitu_kernel_config_4_4.
  The commit SHA1 of the kernel source used to build a particular version is also provided in the release-notes for that version.

• Additional image artificats, including archived kernel sources and kernel headers, are also available in a public Google Cloud Storage bucket under gs://cos-tools/<build-number>/. For example, artifacts for cos-dev-70-11021-11-0 are under gs://cos-tools/11021.11.0/.

        $ gsutil ls gs://cos-tools/11021.11.0/
        gs://cos-tools/11021.11.0/kernel-headers.tgz
        gs://cos-tools/11021.11.0/kernel-src.tar.gz
        gs://cos-tools/11021.11.0/kernel-src.tar.gz.md5

• Those familiar with Chromium OS build system may also find the build recipes under https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/board-overlays/+/master/overlay-lakitu useful.

• Actual source code archives for individual packages can also found under one of the package mirrors maintained by Chromium OS build system. You can access them by appending the correct tarball name to one of the following URLs:

  • https://storage.googleapis.com/chromeos-mirror/gentoo/distfiles/
  • https://storage.googleapis.com/chromeos-localmirror/gentoo/distfiles/
    

The Chromium OS Build FAQ and other Chromium OS Build documentation explains how the build system and package mirrors work.

Building from source

Follow the instructions on Building from Open Source to build a Container-Optimized OS disk image from the source.

Contributing to source code

See http://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-code for instructions on contributing code to the main Chromium repository.