US Patent 11093221 Automatic containerization of operating system distributions

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to containerizing the packages of an operating system. More specifically, a dependency level of each of a plurality of packages included in an operating system may be determined. The plurality of packages may be sorted based on their dependency level, and an image file may be created for each of the plurality of packages sequentially, based on the dependency level of each of the plurality of packages. The image file for each of the plurality of packages may be uploaded to a registry server, and in response to a request to generate a container on which to run an application, generating the container using one or more of the plurality of image files, wherein the one or more of the plurality of image files correspond to one or more of the plurality of packages that the application is dependent on.