Docker
Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers. Quote of features from docker web page:
- Docker containers wrap up a piece of software in a complete filesystem that contains everything it needs to run: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries – anything you can install on a server. This guarantees that it will always run the same, regardless of the environment it is running in.[1]
Contents
Dockerfile directives
USER
$ cat << EOF > Dockerfile # Non-privileged user entry FROM centos:latest MAINTAINER xtof@example.com RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash xtof USER xtof EOF
Note: The use of MAINTAINER
has been deprecated in newer versions of Docker. You should use LABEL
instead, as it is much more flexible and its key/values show up in docker inspect
. From here forward, I will only use LABEL
.
$ docker build -t centos7/nonroot:v1 . $ docker exec -it <container_name> /bin/bash
We are user "xtof" and are unable to become root. The workaround (i.e., how to become root) is like so:
$ docker exec -u 0 -it <container_name> /bin/bash
NOTE: For the remainder of this section, I will omit the $ cat << EOF > Dockerfile
part in the examples for brevity.
RUN
Notes on the order of execution
FROM centos:latest LABEL maintainer="xtof@example.com" RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash xtof USER xtof RUN echo "export PATH=/path/to/my/app:$PATH" >> /etc/bashrc
$ docker build -t centos7/config:v1 . ... /bin/sh: /etc/bashrc: Permission denied
The order of execution matters! Prior to the directive USER xtof
, the user was root. After that directive, the user is now xtof, who does not have super-user privileges. Move the RUN echo ...
directive to before the USER xtof
directive for a successful build.
ENV
Note: The following is a _terrible_ way of building a container. I am purposely doing it this way so I can show you a much better way later (see below).
- Build a CentOS 7 Docker image with Java 8 installed:
# SEE: https://gist.github.com/P7h/9741922 for various Java versions FROM centos:latest LABEL maintainer="xtof@example.com" RUN yum update -y RUN yum install -y net-tools wget RUN echo "SETTING UP JAVA" # The tarball method: #RUN cd ~ && wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate \ # --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" \ # "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u91-b14/jdk-8u91-linux-x64.tar.gz" #RUN tar xzvf jdk-8u91-linux-x64.tar.gz #RUN mv jdk1.8.0_91 /opt #ENV JAVA_HOME /opt/jdk1.8.0_91/ # The rpm method: RUN cd ~ && wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate \ --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" \ "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u161-b12/2f38c3b165be4555a1fa6e98c45e0808/jdk-8u161-linux-x64.rpm" RUN yum localinstall -y /root/jdk-8u161-linux-x64.rpm RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash xtof USER xtof # User specific environment variable RUN cd ~ && echo "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_161/jre" >> ~/.bashrc # Global (system-wide) environment variable ENV JAVA_BIN /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_161/jre/bin
$ docker build -t centos7/java8:v1 .
CMD vs. RUN
FROM centos:latest LABEL maintainer="xtof@example.com" RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash xtof CMD ["echo", "Hello from within my container"]
The CMD
directive only executes when the container is started, whereas the RUN
directive is executed during the build of the image.
$ docker build -t centos7/echo:v1 . $ docker run centos7/echo:v1 Hello from within my container
The container starts, echos out that message, then exits.
ENTRYPOINT
FROM centos:latest LABEL maintainer="xtof@example.com" RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash xtof ENTRYPOINT "This command will display this message on EVERY container that is run from it"
$ docker build -t centos7/entry:v1 . $ docker run centos7/entry:v1 This command will display this message on EVERY container that is run from it $ docker run centos7/entry:v1 /bin/echo "Can you see me?" This command will display this message on EVERY container that is run from it $ docker run centos7/echo:v1 /bin/echo "Can you see me?" Can you see me?
Note the difference.
EXPOSE
FROM centos:latest LABEL maintainer="xtof@example.com" RUN yum update -y RUN yum install -y httpd net-tools RUN echo "This is a custom index file built during the image creation" > /var/www/html/index.html ENTRYPOINT apachectl -DFOREGROUND # BAD WAY TO DO THIS!
$ docker build -t centos7/apache:v1 . $ docker run -d --name webserver centos7/apache:v1 $ docker exec webserver /bin/cat /var/www/html/index.html This is a custom index file built during the image creation $ docker inspect webserver -f '{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' # => 172.17.0.6 #~OR~ $ docker inspect webserver | jq -crM '.[] | .NetworkSettings.IPAddress' # => 172.17.0.6 $ curl 172.17.0.6 This is a custom index file built during the image creation $ curl -sI 172.17.0.6 | awk '/^HTTP|^Server/{print}' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) $ time docker stop webserver real 0m10.275s # <- notice how long it took to stop the container user 0m0.008s sys 0m0.000s $ docker rm webserver
It took ~10 seconds to stop the above container. This is because of the way we are (incorrectly) using ENTRYPOINT
. The SIGTERM
signal when running `docker stop webserver`
actually timed out instead of exiting gracefully. A much better method is show below, which will exit gracefully and in less than 300 ms.
- Expose ports from the CLI
$ docker run -d --name webserver -p 8080:80 centos7/apache:v1 $ curl localhost:8080 This is a custom index file built during the image creation $ docker stop webserver && docker rm webserver
- Explicitly expose a port in the Docker image:
FROM centos:latest LABEL maintainer="xtof@example.com" RUN yum update -y RUN yum install -y httpd net-tools RUN echo "This is a custom index file built during the image creation" > /var/www/html/index.html EXPOSE 80 ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/httpd", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]
$ docker build -t centos7/apache:v1 . $ docker run -d --rm --name webserver -P centos7/apache:v1 $ docker container ls --format '{{.Names}} {{.Ports}}' webserver 0.0.0.0:32769->80/tcp #~OR~ $ docker inspect webserver | jq -crM '[.[] | .NetworkSettings.Ports."80/tcp"[] | .HostPort] | .[]' 32769 $ curl localhost:32769 This is a custom index file built during the image creation $ time docker stop webserver real 0m0.283s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.008s
Note that I passed --rm
to the `docker run`
command so that the container will be removed when I stop the container. Also note how much faster the container stopped (~300ms vs. 10 seconds above).
Container volume management
$ docker run -it --name voltest -v /mydata centos:latest /bin/bash [root@bffdcb88c485 /]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on none 213G 173G 30G 86% / tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 213G 173G 30G 86% /mydata shm 64M 0 64M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/firmware [root@bffdcb88c485 /]# echo "testing" >/mydata/mytext.txt $ docker inspect voltest | jq -crM '.[] | .Mounts[].Source' /var/lib/docker/volumes/2a53fd295595690200a63def8a333b54682174923339130d560fb77ecbe41a3b/_data $ sudo cat /var/lib/docker/volumes/2a53fd295595690200a63def8a333b54682174923339130d560fb77ecbe41a3b/_data/mytext.txt testing $ sudo /bin/bash -c \ "echo 'this is from the host OS' >/var/lib/docker/volumes/2a53fd295595690200a63def8a333b54682174923339130d560fb77ecbe41a3b/_data/host.txt" [root@bffdcb88c485 /]# cat /mydata/host.txt this is from the host OS
- Cleanup
$ docker rm voltest $ docker volume rm 2a53fd295595690200a63def8a333b54682174923339130d560fb77ecbe41a3b
- Mount host's current working directory inside container:
$ echo "my config" >my.conf $ echo "my message" >message.txt $ echo "aerwr3adf" >app.bin $ chmod +x app.bin $ docker run -it --name voltest -v ${PWD}:/mydata centos:latest /bin/bash [root@f5f34ccb54fb /]# ls -l /mydata/ total 24 -rwxrwxr-x 1 1000 1000 10 Mar 8 19:29 app.bin -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 11 Mar 8 19:29 message.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 10 Mar 8 19:29 my.conf [root@f5f34ccb54fb /]# touch /mydata/foobar $ ls -l ${PWD} total 24 -rwxrwxr-x 1 xtof xtof 10 Mar 8 11:29 app.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 8 11:36 foobar -rw-rw-r-- 1 xtof xtof 11 Mar 8 11:29 message.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 xtof xtof 10 Mar 8 11:29 my.conf $ docker rm voltest
Docker networking
Default networks
$ ip addr show docker0 4: docker0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default link/ether 02:42:c0:75:70:13 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 172.17.0.1/16 scope global docker0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::42:c0ff:fe75:7013/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever #~OR~ $ ifconfig docker0 docker0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:42:c0:75:70:13 inet addr:172.17.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::42:c0ff:fe75:7013/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:420654 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1162975 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:85851647 (85.8 MB) TX bytes:1196235716 (1.1 GB)
$ docker network inspect bridge | jq '.[] | .IPAM.Config[].Subnet' "172.17.0.0/16"
So, the usable range of IP addresses in our 172.17.0.0/16 subnet is: 172.17.0.1 - 172.17.255.254
$ docker network ls NETWORK ID NAME DRIVER SCOPE bf831059febc bridge bridge local 266f6df5c44e host host local ce79e4043a20 none null local $ docker ps -q | wc -l #~OR~ $ docker container ls --format '{{.Names}}' | wc -l 4 # => 4 running containers $ docker network inspect bridge | jq '.[] | .Containers[].IPv4Address' "172.17.0.2/16" "172.17.0.5/16" "172.17.0.4/16" "172.17.0.3/16"
The output from the last command are the IP addresses of the 4 containers currently running on my host.
Custom networks
- Create a Docker network
$ man docker-network-create # for details $ docker network create --subnet 10.1.0.0/16 --gateway 10.1.0.1 --ip-range=10.1.4.0/24 \ --driver=bridge --label=host4network br04
- Use the above network with a given container:
$ docker run -it --name net-test --net br04 centos:latest /bin/bash
- Assign a static IP to a given container in the above (user created) network:
$ docker run -it --name net-test --net br04 --ip 10.1.4.100 centos:latest /bin/bash
Note: You can only assign static IPs to user created networks (i.e., you cannot assign them to the default "bridge" network).
Install docker
Debian-based distros
Note: For this install, I will be using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). Docker requires a 64-bit version of Ubuntu as well as a kernel version equal to or greater than 3.10. My system satisfies both requirements.
- Setup the docker repo to install from:
$ sudo apt-get update -y $ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D $ echo "deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list $ sudo apt-get update -y
Make sure you are about to install from the Docker repo instead of the default Ubuntu 16.04 repo:
$ apt-cache policy docker-engine
The output of the above command show look something like the following:
docker-engine: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.11.2-0~xenial Version table: 1.11.2-0~xenial 500 500 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial/main amd64 Packages 1.11.1-0~xenial 500 500 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial/main amd64 Packages 1.11.0-0~xenial 500 500 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial/main amd64 Packages
- Install docker:
$ sudo apt-get install -y docker-engine
Red Hat-based distros
Note: For this install, I will be using CentOS 7 (release 7.2.1511). Docker requires a 64-bit version of CentOS as well as a kernel version equal to or greater than 3.10. My system satisfies both requirements.
- Install Docker (the fast way):
$ sudo yum update -y $ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
- Install Docker (via a yum repo):
$ sudo yum update -y $ sudo pip install docker-py $ cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo [dockerrepo] name=Docker Repository baseurl=https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/centos/7/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg EOF $ sudo rpm -vv --import https://yum.dockerproject.org/gpg $ sudo yum update -y $ sudo yum install docker-engine -y
Post-installation steps
- Check on the status of docker:
$ sudo systemctl status docker
● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-07-12 12:31:08 PDT; 6s ago Docs: https://docs.docker.com Main PID: 3392 (docker) CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service ├─3392 /usr/bin/docker daemon -H fd:// └─3411 docker-containerd -l /var/run/docker/libcontainerd/docker-containerd.sock --runtime docker-runc --start-timeout 2m
- Make sure the docker service automatically starts after a machine reboot:
$ sudo systemctl enable docker
- Execute docker without `sudo`:
$ sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)
Log out and log back in to use docker without `sudo`.
- Check that docker has been successfully installed and configured:
$ docker run hello-world
... This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly. ...
Install your own Docker private registry
Note: I will use CentOS 7 for this install and assume you already have docker and docker-compose installed (see above).
For this install, I will assume you have a domain name registered somewhere. I will use docker.example.com
as my example domain. Replace anywhere you see that below with your actual domain name.
- Install dependencies:
$ yum install -y nginx # used for the registry endpoint $ yum install -y httpd-tools # for the htpasswd utility
- Setup docker registry directory structure:
$ mkdir -p /opt/docker-registry/{data,nginx{/conf.d,/certs},log} $ cd /opt/docker-registry
- Create a docker-compose file:
$ vim docker-compose.yml # and add the following:
nginx: image: "nginx:1.9" ports: - 5043:443 links: - registry:registry volumes: - ./log/nginx/:/var/log/nginx:rw - ./nginx/conf.d:/etc/nginx/conf.d:ro - ./nginx/certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro registry: image: registry:2 ports: - 127.0.0.1:5000:5000 environment: REGISTRY_STORAGE_FILESYSTEM_ROOTDIRECTORY: /data volumes: - ./data:/data
- Create an Nginx configuration file:
$ vim /opt/docker-registry/nginx/conf.d/registry.conf # and add the following:
upstream docker-registry { server registry:5000; } server { listen 443; server_name docker.example.com; # SSL ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/docker.example.com.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/docker.example.com.key; # disable any limits to avoid HTTP 413 for large image uploads client_max_body_size 0; # required to avoid HTTP 411: see Issue #1486 (https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/1486) chunked_transfer_encoding on; location /v2/ { # Do not allow connections from docker 1.5 and earlier # docker pre-1.6.0 did not properly set the user agent on ping, catch "Go *" user agents if ($http_user_agent ~ "^(docker\/1\.(3|4|5(?!\.[0-9]-dev))|Go ).*$" ) { return 404; } proxy_pass http://docker-registry; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; # required for docker client's sake proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; # pass on real client's IP proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_read_timeout 900; add_header 'Docker-Distribution-Api-Version:' 'registry/2.0' always; # To add basic authentication to v2 use auth_basic setting plus add_header auth_basic "Restricted access to Docker Registry"; auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/conf.d/registry.htpasswd; } }
$ cd /opt/docker-registry/nginx/conf.d $ htpasswd -c registry.htpasswd <username> # replace <username> with your actual username $ htpasswd registry.htpasswd <username2> # [optional] add a 2nd user
- Setup your own certificate signing authority (for use with SSL):
$ cd /opt/docker-registry/nginx/certs
- Generate a new root key:
$ openssl genrsa -out docker-registry-CA.key 2048
- Generate a root certificate (enter anything you like at the prompts):
$ openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key docker-registry-CA.key -days 3650 -out docker-registry-CA.crt
Then generate a key for your server (this is the file referenced by ssl_certificate_key
in the Nginx configuration above):
$ openssl genrsa -out docker.example.com.key 2048
Now we have to make a certificate signing request (CSR). After you type the following command, OpenSSL will prompt you to answer a few questions. Enter anything you like for the first few, however, when OpenSSL prompts you to enter the "Common Name", make sure to enter the domain or IP of your server.
$ openssl req -new -key docker.example.com.key -out docker.example.com.csr
- Sign the certificate request:
$ openssl x509 -req -in docker.example.com.csr -CA docker-registry-CA.crt -CAkey docker-registry-CA.key -CAcreateserial -out docker.example.com.crt -days 3650
- Force any clients that will use the certificate authority we created above to accept that it is a "legitimate" certificate. Run the following commands on the Docker registry server and on any hosts that will be communicating with the Docker registry server:
$ sudo cp /opt/docker-registry/nginx/certs/docker-registry-CA.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ $ sudo update-ca-trust
- Restart the Docker daemon in order for it to pick up the changes to the certificate store:
$ sudo systemctl restart docker.service
- Bring up the associated Docker containers:
$ docker-compose up -d
- Your Docker registry directory structure should look like the following:
$ cd /opt/docker-registry && tree . . ├── data ├── docker-compose.yml ├── log │ └── nginx │ ├── access.log │ └── error.log └── nginx ├── certs │ ├── docker-registry-CA.crt │ ├── docker-registry-CA.key │ ├── docker-registry-CA.srl │ ├── docker.example.com.crt │ ├── docker.example.com.csr │ └── docker.example.com.key └── conf.d ├── registry.conf └── registry.htpasswd
- To access the private Docker registry from a client machine (any machine, really), first add the SSL certificate you created earlier to the client machine:
$ cat /opt/docker-registry/nginx/certs/docker-registry-CA.crt # copy contents # On client machine: $ sudo vim /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/docker-registry-CA.crt # paste contents $ sudo update-ca-certificates # You should see "1 added" in the output
- Restart Docker on the client machine to make sure it reloads the system's CA certificates:
$ sudo service docker restart
- Test that you can reach your private Docker registry:
$ curl -k https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@docker.example.com:5043/v2/ {} # <- proper output
- Now, test that you can login with Docker:
$ docker login https://docker.example.com:5043
If that returns with "Login Succeeded", your private Docker registry is up and running!
This section is incomplete. It will be updated presently.
Docker environment variables
Note: See here for the most up-to-date list of environment variables.
The following list of environment variables are supported by the docker command line:
DOCKER_API_VERSION
- The API version to use (e.g., 1.19)
DOCKER_CONFIG
- The location of your client configuration files.
DOCKER_CERT_PATH
- The location of your authentication keys.
DOCKER_DRIVER
- The graph driver to use.
DOCKER_HOST
- Daemon socket to connect to.
DOCKER_NOWARN_KERNEL_VERSION
- Prevent warnings that your Linux kernel is unsuitable for Docker.
DOCKER_RAMDISK
- If set this will disable "pivot_root".
DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY
- When set Docker uses TLS and verifies the remote.
DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST
- When set Docker uses notary to sign and verify images. Equates to
--disable-content-trust=false
for build, create, pull, push, run. DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST_SERVER
- The URL of the Notary server to use. This defaults to the same URL as the registry.
DOCKER_TMPDIR
- Location for temporary Docker files.
Because Docker is developed using "Go", one can also use any environment variables used by the "Go" runtime. In particular, the following might be useful:
HTTP_PROXY
HTTPS_PROXY
NO_PROXY
- Example usage:
$ export DOCKER_API_VERSION=1.19