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2,962 | 16,336 | |
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go-containerregistry
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A gopher’s journey to the center of container images
I also explored another module, go-containerregistry, in order to build images without root privileges. The approach is completely different, and we can manipulate each component of the container image separately. This can present an advantage, if you're looking for a way to fine tune things.
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Skip build if "${CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE}:${CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA}" exists on container registry
Use crane ls in a different job to check the tags in the registry. Create an artifact from its output that you evaluate in your kaniko job to check if the build should run or not.
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Docker: We’re No Longer Sunsetting the Free Team Plan
Multi-arch builds are easy to "transfer" IMHO
crane cp docker.io/openfaas/gateway:0.10.0 ghcr.io/openfaas/gateway:0.10.0
If you've not used it yet - do take a look. Crane doesn't pull the images into a local Docker library for re-tagging and re-pushing.
https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd...
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Weekly: This Week I Learned (TWIL?) thread
crane - tool to copy images from one repo to another - https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/blob/main/cmd/crane/doc/crane.md
- Dockerhub to (likely?) delete a lot of organizations.
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FYI: Docker is deleting Open Source organisations
pretty sure the crane being referred by alex is this one: https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/main/cmd/crane
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Docker's deleting Open Source images and here's what you need to know
https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry/tree/main/cmd...
It was recommended in this article:
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Crafting container images without Dockerfiles
This is one of my absolute favorite topics. Pardon me while I rant and self-promote :D
Dockerfiles are great for flexibility, and have been a critical contributor to the adoption of Docker containers. It's very easy to take a base image, add a thing to it, and publish your version.
Unfortunately Dockerfiles are also full of gotchas and opaque cargo-culted best practices to avoid them. Being an open-ended execution environment, it's basically impossible to tell even during the build what's being added to the image, which has downstream implications for anybody trying to get an SBOM from the image for example.
Instead, I contribute to a number of tools to build and manage images without Dockerfiles. Each of them are less featureful than Dockerfiles, but being more constrained in what they can do, you can get a lot more visibility into what they're doing, since they're not able to do "whatever the user wants".
1. https://github.com/google/go-containerregistry is a Go module to interact with images in the registry and in tarballs and layouts, in the local docker daemon. You can append layers, squash layers, modify metadata, etc.
2. crane is a CLI that uses the above (in the same repo) to make many of the same modifications from the commandline. `crane append` for instance adds a layer containing some contents to an image, entirely in the registry, without even pulling the base image.
3. ko (https://ko.build) is a tool to build Go applications into images without Dockerfiles or Docker at all. It runs `go build`, appends that binary on top of a base image, and pushes it directly to the registry. It generates an SBOM declaring what Go modules went into the app it put into the image, since that's all it can do.
4. apko (https://apko.dev) is a tool to assemble an image from pre-built apks, without Docker. It's capable of producing "distroless" images easily with config in YAML. It generates an SBOM declaring exactly what apks it put in the image, since that's all it can do.
Bazel's rules_docker is another contender in the space, and GCP's distroless images use it to place Debian .debs into an image. Apko is its spiritual successor, and uses YAML instead of Bazel's own config language, which makes it a lot easier to adopt and use (IMO), with all of the same benefits.
I'm excited to see more folks realizing that Dockerfiles aren't always necessary, and can sometimes make your life harder. I'm extra excited to see more tools and tutorials digging into the details of how container images work, and preaching the gospel that they can be built and modified using existing tooling and relatively simple libraries. Excellent article!
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ImagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent - (image doesn’t exist in repo) - Is it possible to pull the micro service image from an EKS node and then push to repo?
Look at using tools like skopeo or crane
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Containerd... Do I use Docker to build the container image? I miss the Docker Shim
Pretty much any tool works: docker, podman, kaniko, crane(if you're brave), ko... list goes on.
containerd
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Exploring 5 Docker Alternatives: Containerization Choices for 2024
Containerd and nerdctl
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The Road To Kubernetes: How Older Technologies Add Up
Kubernetes on the backend used to utilize docker for much of its container runtime solutions. One of the modular features of Kubernetes is the ability to utilize a Container Runtime Interface or CRI. The problem was that Docker didn't really meet the spec properly and they had to maintain a shim to translate properly. Instead users could utilize the popular containerd or cri-o runtimes. These follow the Open Container Initiative or OCI's guidelines on container formats.
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Fun with Avatars: Containerize the app for deployment & distribution | Part. 2
Container Engine: A runtime that executes and manages containers. Docker and containerd are popular container engines.
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Complexity by Simplicity - A Deep Dive Into Kubernetes Components
Multiple container runtimes are supported, like conatinerd, cri-o, or other CRI compliant runtimes.
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macOS Containers v0.0.1
This is a failed attempt to upstream part of containerd changes: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/8789
Other part of containerd changes waits for gods-know-what: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/9054
But I haven't gave up yet.
- Latest versions of Docker cause memory leak in MySQL 5.7
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Kubernetes Setup With WSL Control Plane and Raspberry Pi Workers
containerd is required by kubernetes to handle containers on its behalf. A big thanks to the HostAfrica blog for the information on setting containerd up for debain. So the containerd install will need to happen on both the WSL2 instance and the Raspberry Pis. For WSL2 you can just install containerd directly:
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Bingo of the Kubernetes problems I found myself debugging over the past weeks. AMA :p
The context deadline exceeded: unknown is also in containerd, and is a known problem.
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Hi peeps, I am getting error installing docker. Now let me give you some context. I was trying to install docker on the google colab notebook. As google colab is ubuntu under the hood. So I just followed the docker linux terminal installation commands.
Get:1 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal/stable amd64 containerd.io amd64 1.6.21-1 [28.3 MB]
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Docker Explained - Again
Docker Desktop adds a bunch of stuff to simplify local development and that’s why it has a larger memory footprint. You don’t use that when deploying but something like https://containerd.io/.
What are some alternatives?
skopeo - Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content
podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
regclient - Docker and OCI Registry Client in Go and tooling using those libraries.
cri-o - Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
container-diff - container-diff: Diff your Docker containers
Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
image-spec - OCI Image Format
podman-compose - a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman
gcr-cleaner - Delete untagged image refs in Google Container Registry or Artifact Registry
colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
docker-tools - This is a repo to house some common tools for our various docker repos.
sysbox - An open-source, next-generation "runc" that empowers rootless containers to run workloads such as Systemd, Docker, Kubernetes, just like VMs.