Bug 1283701

Summary: Explore support for installing Docker images at installation time
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Colin Walters <walters>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: anaconda-maint-list, bcl, fdeutsch, g.kaviyarasu, imcleod, jonathan, kbsingh, riehecky, rvykydal, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Experimental docker kickstart (requires lorax-docker-boot.iso) none

Description Colin Walters 2015-11-19 15:51:41 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884385#c34

Right now people are doing hacks in %post to pull Docker images, and there are many things suboptimal about that.

This bug is about exploring some sort of core/kickstart support for this, similar to what we have for `ostreesetup`.

It's worth also considering user interface support, but I know that's a *lot* more work.

Comment 1 Colin Walters 2015-11-19 16:03:52 UTC
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166465#c17 for an original bug on this.

An example use case now is where Anaconda knows how to install RPMs like open-vm-tools, if we want to have privileged containers which act as services, they need to be installed at that time.

Another example: We're working on containerizing Kubernetes, and potentially taking it out of Atomic Host.  But many use cases will want this there by default, so having the container laid down at the same time as the host OS makes sense.

Comment 2 Radek Vykydal 2015-11-20 10:31:44 UTC
Having some examples of the %post hacks could be a good starting point.

Comment 3 Colin Walters 2015-11-20 21:35:36 UTC
Ian, I believe you were working on this?

Comment 6 Brian Lane 2015-12-02 01:12:24 UTC
Created attachment 1101225 [details]
Experimental docker kickstart (requires lorax-docker-boot.iso)

I've done some experimenting with this, and I think it is worthwhile to just include docker in the boot.iso, it only adds about 12M and I may be able to trim some of that off in runtime-cleanup.tmpl

I have a kickstart that works with this custom boot.iso, docker is running in the host, not in the chroot, so there are no issues with mounting /dev/. I do bind mount /var/lib/docker/ to the target system which is much safer than trying to make the chroot look like a complete system.

It looks like docker-storage-setup only works with a LV named docker-pool? Is this correct? It would be nicer if the user could name it whatever they want and pass that on to docker.

I think the next thing to do is to add a docker kickstart command that accepts the VG name (from the created VGs), as well as other storage related commands. thoughts on what needs to be accepted would be appreciated, I'm still learning about docker. It would basically do what I've done in the %post --nochroot but I'm not sure what kinds of other things it would need to do. pulling an image obviously, but what else?

Comment 7 Brian Lane 2015-12-02 01:26:07 UTC
I've uploaded my experimental f23 boot.iso here: https://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/anaconda/f23-docker-20151124.iso if you want to use the attached kickstart.

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