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vfkit
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Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
You can try running https://github.com/crc-org/crc with the podman preset (!) to test it. It would not be exactly the same how podman machine will use it eventualky, but might help to give an idea of performance or issues we can imorove on first. We have seen a lot of users being more than content as it also works in a vpn environment. Note that the CRC tool primarily aims at OpenShift deployment... This is a different preset (resource intensive). Only available as an installer with our tray (sorry about this).
The driver we use is https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit and I am sure Christophe could share a method to just run the VM with our driver. HMU by email if you prefer.
sysbox
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Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop
You are probably referring to Sysbox (https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox), which I believe will meet your requirements (systemd, inner containers, security, etc).
Btw, Sysbox is already supported in Docker-Desktop (business tier only), so you can easily do what you want with this instruction:
$ docker run -it --rm -e SYSBOX_SYSCONT_MODE=TRUE nestybox/ubuntu-focal-systemd-docker:latest bash
Disclaimer: I'm Sysbox's co-creator and currently working for Docker.
- Sysbox: VM-Like Containers
- What companies are using golang and have source code in github?
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SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
One project in this space that looked quite promising to me is sysbox[0]. I've used them once for a gitlab runner set-up similar to what is described in their blog[1].
It's currently working great and I have not had any major crashes/incidents for at least the past 8 months.
[0]: https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox
[1]: https://blog.nestybox.com/2020/10/21/gitlab-dind.html
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Jenkins in Docker: Running Docker in a Jenkins container
Today, things are very different. Docker-in-Docker has a more secure and safe approach with rootless containers and freemium tools like sysbox. Tools like sysbox let you run Docker-in-Docker without the -privileged flag and optimizes specific scenarios, like running multiple nodes of a Kubernetes cluster as ordinary containers.
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Run untrusted code in sandbox
Right now I am going with sysbox rootless containers. https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox
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Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines
We’ve been using Sysbox (https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox) for our Buildkite based CI/CD setup, allows docker-in-docker without privileged containers. Paired with careful IAM/STS design we’ve ended up with isolated job containers with their own IAM roles limited to least-privilege.
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Individual Docker Desktops vs hosting on a server?
A good alternative to the VM approach is to use Kubernetes + Sysbox (a next-gen "runc", free, open-source).
- Sysbox now works on K8s v1.21
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Does running a container with privileged mode turn on allow code to escape into the Host ?
But nowadays there is an option to run such software in containers securely. It's called Sysbox, and it's a new "runc" (the piece of software that creates the containers). I am one of the developers, so I am biased, but I think you'll find it helpful.
What are some alternatives?
container-selinux - SELinux policy files for Container Runtimes
kata-containers - Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
pods - Keep track of your podman containers
containerd - An open and reliable container runtime
dind - Docker in Docker
gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers
gatekeeper - 🐊 Gatekeeper - Policy Controller for Kubernetes
snekbox - Easy, safe evaluation of arbitrary Python code
vm2 - Advanced vm/sandbox for Node.js
piston - A high performance general purpose code execution engine.
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
the-witness-stand - The Witness Stand is a set of sandboxes for trying user programs.