Since containerd consumes the OCI bundle format containers and configuration will have to be created on the machine that containerd is running on. The easiest way to do this is to download an image with docker and export it.
First thing we need to do to create a bundle is setup the initial directory structure.
Create a directory with a unique name. In this example we will create a redis container.
We will create this container in a /containers
directory.
mkdir redis
Inside the redis
directory create another directory named rootfs
mkdir redis/rootfs
Now we need to populate the rootfs
directory with the filesystem of a redis container. To do this we
need to pull the redis image with docker and export its contents to the rootfs
directory.
docker pull redis
# create the container with a temp name so that we can export it
docker create --name tempredis redis
# export it into the rootfs directory
docker export tempredis | tar -C redis/rootfs -xf -
# remove the container now that we have exported
docker rm tempredis
Now that we have the root filesystem populated we need to create the configs for the container.
An easy way to get temp configs for the container bundle is to use the runc
cli tool from the runc repository.
You need to cd
into the redis
directory and run the runc spec
command. After doing this you
should have a file config.json
created. The directory structure should look like this:
/containers/redis
├── config.json
└── rootfs/
We need to edit the config to add redis-server
as the application to launch inside the container,
and remove the network namespace so that you can connect to the redis server on your system.
The resulting config.json
should look like this:
{
"ociVersion": "0.4.0",
"platform": {
"os": "linux",
"arch": "amd64"
},
"process": {
"terminal": true,
"user": {},
"args": [
"redis-server", "--bind", "0.0.0.0"
],
"env": [
"PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin",
"TERM=xterm"
],
"cwd": "/",
"capabilities": [
"CAP_AUDIT_WRITE",
"CAP_KILL",
"CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE"
],
"rlimits": [
{
"type": "RLIMIT_NOFILE",
"hard": 1024,
"soft": 1024
}
],
"noNewPrivileges": true
},
"root": {
"path": "rootfs",
"readonly": true
},
"hostname": "runc",
"mounts": [
{
"destination": "/proc",
"type": "proc",
"source": "proc"
},
{
"destination": "/dev",
"type": "tmpfs",
"source": "tmpfs",
"options": [
"nosuid",
"strictatime",
"mode=755",
"size=65536k"
]
},
{
"destination": "/dev/pts",
"type": "devpts",
"source": "devpts",
"options": [
"nosuid",
"noexec",
"newinstance",
"ptmxmode=0666",
"mode=0620",
"gid=5"
]
},
{
"destination": "/dev/shm",
"type": "tmpfs",
"source": "shm",
"options": [
"nosuid",
"noexec",
"nodev",
"mode=1777",
"size=65536k"
]
},
{
"destination": "/dev/mqueue",
"type": "mqueue",
"source": "mqueue",
"options": [
"nosuid",
"noexec",
"nodev"
]
},
{
"destination": "/sys",
"type": "sysfs",
"source": "sysfs",
"options": [
"nosuid",
"noexec",
"nodev",
"ro"
]
},
{
"destination": "/sys/fs/cgroup",
"type": "cgroup",
"source": "cgroup",
"options": [
"nosuid",
"noexec",
"nodev",
"relatime",
"ro"
]
}
],
"hooks": {},
"linux": {
"resources": {
"devices": [
{
"allow": false,
"access": "rwm"
}
]
},
"namespaces": [
{
"type": "pid"
},
{
"type": "ipc"
},
{
"type": "uts"
},
{
"type": "mount"
}
],
"devices": null
}
}
This is what you need to do to make a OCI compliant bundle for containerd to start.