The docker way of updating containers is to build a new image with the updated binaries and files, which creates a security concern.
The docker way is not anymore running "zypper update" in the containment but to update the whole image in the image registry (hub docker if we are talking about public registry) and then pull the image update from there, stop the outdated containments and replace them by starting new containments based on the new image.
This process breaks our current security update workflow since our workflow is based on running "zypper update" at the host, or in this case, in the containment.
Thus, what we need is a way to update the images in the registry when there are new RPM updates.
When we talk about updating RPMs, we have to make a distinction of 2 cases:
- The RPM is in the base image
- The RPM is in a layer above the image
The idea of the project is to make use of the "Remote Build Trigger" feature in the public registry "Docker Hub" [1] to trigger automatic builds of containers which need to be rebuilt.
[1] https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
The design on how to solve this is:
1- add a layer in the docker image which updates the packages, thus "zypper up" command in the Dockerfile.
2- get a list of RPMs installed on the docker image
3- get metadata from the update repo
4- based on the information from 2 and 3, decide to trigger a rebuild
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
I'll start by doing 1 and 2 manually, that is, editing the Dockerfile on a docker example and running "rpm -qa" on that docker example. Thus I'll focus on 3 and 4.
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
after talking to Flavio, I'll redesign it as:
1- add a layer in docker image which applies patches: "zypper ref && zypper patch" 2- run "docker run --rm IMAGE zypper list-patches" 3- if 2 returns a list of patches, trigger a rebuild
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
1- add a layer in docker image which applies patches: "zypper ref && zypper patch"
2- run "docker run --rm IMAGE zypper list-patches"
3- if 2 returns a list of patches, trigger a rebuild
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
Yes I could do that but that wouldn't update existing images in docker hub.
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
dc-update is a shell script that pulls the image from a registry (i.e. docker hub), checks if there are pending updates, and if so, adds a layer with the updated packages (by running "zypper patch" and commiting afterwards), and finally pushes the image back to the registry (i.e. docker hub).
It also works with fedora.
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
Web interface:
https://github.com/jordimassaguerpla/dc-update-web
It has no yet multiuser support and it requires the dockercfg file to be in the home directory of the user running the web. Adding multiuser support will be the next step.
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
It requires the dcupdate to be in the path. I am going to create an RPM with the dcupdate.
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
It has support for multiple users. Authentication is with github. RPM for dc-update:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jordimassaguerpla:/dc-update
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
and here there is a screenshot
https://github.com/jordimassaguerpla/dc-update-web/blob/master/screenshots/hackweek12.png
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over 9 years ago by jordimassaguerpla | Reply
I had presented the project in the docker meetup group in Barcelona last wednesday. People found it interesting and pointed out a problem if the image had been built with a DockerFile and, after updating it with the dc-update script, you try to rebuild it again based on the DockerFile.
This script can be used for updating base images which won't get new code and so no rebuilds or it could be changed to trigger a rebuild based on the DockerFile instead of adding a layer with "zypper/yum update".
In anyway, I've get to practice with docker and rails and have learn a lot, thus it has been worth doing this project :-) .
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