Red Hat Summit17장. Running Skopeo, Buildah, and Podman in a container
You can run Skopeo, Buildah, and Podman in a container.
With Skopeo, you can inspect images on a remote registry without having to download the entire image with all its layers. You can also use Skopeo for copying images, signing images, syncing images, and converting images across different formats and layer compressions.
Buildah facilitates building OCI container images. With Buildah, you can create a working container, either from scratch or using an image as a starting point. You can create an image either from a working container or using the instructions in a Containerfile. You can mount and unmount a working container’s root filesystem.
With Podman, you can manage containers and images, volumes mounted into those containers, and pods made from groups of containers. Podman is based on a libpod library for container lifecycle management. The libpod library provides APIs for managing containers, pods, container images, and volumes.
Reasons to run Buildah, Skopeo, and Podman in a container:
CI/CD system:
- Podman and Skopeo: You can run a CI/CD system inside of Kubernetes or use OpenShift to build your container images, and possibly distribute those images across different container registries. To integrate Skopeo into a Kubernetes workflow, you need to run it in a container.
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Buildah: You want to build OCI/container images within a Kubernetes or OpenShift CI/CD systems that are constantly building images. Previously, people used a Docker socket to connect to the container engine and perform a
docker buildcommand. This was the equivalent of giving root access to the system without requiring a password which is not secure. For this reason, Red Hat recommends using Buildah in a container.
Different versions:
- All: You are running an older operating system on the host but you want to run the latest version of Skopeo, Buildah, or Podman. The solution is to run the container tools in a container. For example, this is useful for running the latest version of the container tools provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 container host which does not have access to the newest versions natively.
HPC environment:
- All: A common restriction in HPC environments is that non-root users are not allowed to install packages on the host. When you run Skopeo, Buildah, or Podman in a container, you can perform these specific tasks as a non-root user.
17.1. Running Skopeo in a container
You can inspect a remote container image using Skopeo. Running Skopeo in a container means that the container root filesystem is isolated from the host root filesystem. To share or copy files between the host and container, you have to mount files and directories.
Prerequisites
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The
container-toolsmeta-package is installed.
Procedure
Log in to the registry.redhat.io registry:
$ podman login registry.redhat.io Username: myuser@mycompany.com Password: <password> Login Succeeded!Get the
registry.redhat.io/rhel10/skopeocontainer image:$ podman pull registry.redhat.io/rhel10/skopeoInspect a remote container image
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi10/ubiusing Skopeo:$ podman run --rm registry.redhat.io/rhel10/skopeo \ skopeo inspect docker://registry.access.redhat.com/ubi10/ubi { "Name": "registry.access.redhat.com/ubi10/ubi", ... "Labels": { "architecture": "x86_64", ... "name": "ubi10", ... "summary": "Provides the latest release of Red Hat Universal Base Image 10.", "url": "https://access.redhat.com/containers/#/registry.access.redhat.com/ubi10/images/8.2-347", ... }, "Architecture": "amd64", "Os": "linux", "Layers": [ ... ], "Env": [ "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin", "container=oci" ] }The
--rmoption removes theregistry.redhat.io/rhel10/skopeoimage after the container exits.
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