I tried to build a docker image. Then on docker images command, the list displays:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
<none> <none> eaaf8e203bd4 1 min ago 253.2 MB
Is there a way in my Dockerfile to specify a name for this build? Or at docker build . command line?
Another question: I want to upload via SFTP the docker container on my production server and run it. Where are the containers stored?
You should use the -t option of docker build
docker build -t name:tag
The tag is optional.
I want to upload via SFTP the docker container on my production server and run it.
You should "upload" the image, and by that I mean push it to a docker registry running on your server.
You could also commit a running container into an intermediate image (which would freeze the running state of the container, but would not preserve the volume data, if one was declared in that container)
Then copy that archive, and docker import it.
See "How to move docker containers between different hosts".
Once imported, see "Where are docker images stored on the host machine?".
(/var/lib/docker/containers for containers)
Related
I would like to build docker-image on Gitlab CI/CD with alpine. This docker has to download a website (only index.html) as a file with a date every 1 hour.
All dates/ files should be saved in the docker volume.
How to start with this? I am new in docker.
First you need to run a docker container using any image you want (alpine in your case).
Then set everything in it that you want to run (like download website)
Then create a docker image and host it on gitlab docker registry
Then you simply have to code .gitlab-ci.yaml file. After pushing that to your repository
Then you need to schedule your pipeline as mentioned here
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pipelines/schedules.html
Docker provides a way to run the container using docker run
Or just pull the container image using docker pull
Found a doc showing mapping between docker commands and kubectl.
Can't find docker pull equivalent in this doc.
If there is no any such equivalent to docker pull, then is there any way to just pull an image using kubectl cli.
In short - no, there is not.
And why would there be? Kubernetes is an orchestration tool for Docker, it will automatically pull pods for you if it needs them, so there's really no need to have a command to pull containers manually.
I think there isn't a kubectl ... equivalent and some of the reasons might be:
they are not equivalent 🙂. When you docker pull an image, you are planning to use it afterwards on your docker host. When you kubectl ... a deployment, you want the platform to schedule everything. For example if you have many worker nodes and the replicas are going to be scheduled to only two of them, then the other nodes don't have to pull the image.
kubectl is a tool that talks to the API server to control the cluster. It would be wrong to make it also responsible for container images (see, Leaky Abstractions) since you have available a lower level tool that talks to the Container Runtime Interface for that: crictl.
k8s-master:~$ crictl --help
NAME:
crictl - client for CRI
USAGE:
crictl [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
VERSION:
v1.12.0
COMMANDS:
attach Attach to a running container
create Create a new container
exec Run a command in a running container
version Display runtime version information
images List images
inspect Display the status of one or more containers
inspecti Return the status of one or more images
inspectp Display the status of one or more pods
logs Fetch the logs of a container
port-forward Forward local port to a pod
ps List containers
pull Pull an image from a registry
...
pic from: www.aquasec.com/wiki/display/containers/Kubernetes+Architecture+101
what takes place with container run-times under the hood is complicated and keeps evolving. Think about this, people started creating Kubernetes clusters and the container engine used was Docker. Then Docker adopted containerd so we had Kubernetes on top of Docker on top of containerd, which caused problems like this:
Users won't see Kubernetes pulled images with the docker images command... And vice versa, Kubernetes won't see images created by docker pull, docker load or docker build commands...
source / more details: Kubernetes Containerd Integration Goes GA
crictl pull <image name>
There is no need to pull by kubernetes in cli.
Why?
Becuase when you run kubectl create -f template.yml it containe an image and it cjecked that the image is exist or not. If it does not exist it pull image automatically.
You will not find equivalent of docker pull in Kubernetes because this command is related to images management. Explanation below.
One of Docker features is abbility to create Images. You can create your own image using Dockerfile (docker build .) or pull from Docker Hub which contains many pre-built images.
If you use pull command it will just download image, it will not deploy any container.
$ docker pull hello-world
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from library/hello-world
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
hello-world latest fce289e99eb9 5 months ago 1.84kB
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
As you see, $ docker pull will only display download image. As Docker is also responsible for image management you can pull or push images to repository (DockerHub).
To create container in Docker you have to use $ docker run. This command will automatically download image and run container.
$ docker run --name mynginx -p 80:80 -d nginx
Unable to find image 'nginx:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/nginx
...
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
4abf804611a8 nginx "nginx -g 'daemon of…" 4 minutes ago Up 4 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp mynginx
In short:
Create adds a writeable container on top of your image and sets it up for running whatever command you specified in your CMD. The container ID is reported back but it’s not started.
Start will start any stopped containers. This includes freshly created containers.
Run is a combination of create and start. It creates the container and starts it.
Kubernetes is container-orchestration system so it is not responsible for creating or edit images. That is why you will not find equivalent of docker pull (download only image).
Commands like kubectl apply -f <deployment> with image inside YAML file or kubectl run nginx --image=nginx are based on images from DockerHub (more like docker create).
Hope it helped.
It could be a bit tricky, but it is possible to achieve similar to docker pull results using kubectl. You just need to know how to exit the containers with zero exit code.
The idea is to pull several images on all nodes in the Kubernetes cluster.
For doing this you could create a DaemonSet which will try to create Pods on every applicable node in the cluster. To pull several images at once, just add several initContainers to the DaemonSet template. ImagePullPolicy set to IfNotPresent, restartPolicy set to Never. Set command individually to each initContainer to make it exit successfully. You need something like sh -c "exit 0", just ensure that container has sh binary inside, or use another possible command that usually gives you zero exit code: <appname_binary> version or <appname_binary> --help.
After applying that DaemonSet to the cluster, Kubernetes creates Pods from DaemonSet templates on each node and runs each initContainer in the Pod in order of presence. Before starting each container kubelet pulls the image required to run that container.
When you see that all DaemonSet Pods completed successfuly - you can be sure that on every node you have all images, required for running those containers.
You can play with nodeAffinity or taints/tolerations if you want to run the DaemonSet only on specific nodes.
Whats the difference between commands docker container run vs docker run
Also whats the difference between docker image build vs docker build
Docker previously uses the commands like docker run and docker build to run a container or build an image. In later versions, they felt they should specify and make a group as #tarun-lalwani suggested so there is no difference in docker run or docker container run(they are just aliases of each other).
if you just run the docker command
$ docker
Usage: docker COMMAND
A self-sufficient runtime for containers
Options:
--config string Location of client config files (default "/Users/tarun.lalwani/.docker")
-D, --debug Enable debug mode
--help Print usage
-H, --host list Daemon socket(s) to connect to
-l, --log-level string Set the logging level ("debug"|"info"|"warn"|"error"|"fatal") (default "info")
--tls Use TLS; implied by --tlsverify
--tlscacert string Trust certs signed only by this CA (default "/Users/tarun.lalwani/.docker/ca.pem")
--tlscert string Path to TLS certificate file (default "/Users/tarun.lalwani/.docker/cert.pem")
--tlskey string Path to TLS key file (default "/Users/tarun.lalwani/.docker/key.pem")
--tlsverify Use TLS and verify the remote
-v, --version Print version information and quit
Management Commands:
checkpoint Manage checkpoints
config Manage Docker configs
container Manage containers
image Manage images
network Manage networks
node Manage Swarm nodes
plugin Manage plugins
secret Manage Docker secrets
service Manage services
stack Manage Docker stacks
swarm Manage Swarm
system Manage Docker
volume Manage volumes
Commands:
attach Attach local standard input, output, and error streams to a running container
build Build an image from a Dockerfile
commit Create a new image from a container's changes
cp Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem
create Create a new container
deploy Deploy a new stack or update an existing stack
diff Inspect changes to files or directories on a container's filesystem
events Get real time events from the server
exec Run a command in a running container
export Export a container's filesystem as a tar archive
history Show the history of an image
images List images
import Import the contents from a tarball to create a filesystem image
info Display system-wide information
inspect Return low-level information on Docker objects
kill Kill one or more running containers
load Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN
login Log in to a Docker registry
logout Log out from a Docker registry
logs Fetch the logs of a container
pause Pause all processes within one or more containers
port List port mappings or a specific mapping for the container
ps List containers
pull Pull an image or a repository from a registry
push Push an image or a repository to a registry
rename Rename a container
restart Restart one or more containers
rm Remove one or more containers
rmi Remove one or more images
run Run a command in a new container
save Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
search Search the Docker Hub for images
start Start one or more stopped containers
stats Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics
stop Stop one or more running containers
tag Create a tag TARGET_IMAGE that refers to SOURCE_IMAGE
top Display the running processes of a container
unpause Unpause all processes within one or more containers
update Update configuration of one or more containers
version Show the Docker version information
wait Block until one or more containers stop, then print their exit codes
Run 'docker COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.
Now you have groups to manager multiple commands like container, image. When you run this group
$ docker image
Usage: docker image COMMAND
Manage images
Options:
--help Print usage
Commands:
build Build an image from a Dockerfile
history Show the history of an image
import Import the contents from a tarball to create a filesystem image
inspect Display detailed information on one or more images
load Load an image from a tar archive or STDIN
ls List images
prune Remove unused images
pull Pull an image or a repository from a registry
push Push an image or a repository to a registry
rm Remove one or more images
save Save one or more images to a tar archive (streamed to STDOUT by default)
tag Create a tag TARGET_IMAGE that refers to SOURCE_IMAGE
So as docker build is an alias to docker container build. Docker initially was all about first level commands and later the team realized they need a way to group the commands and that is why to keep it compatible with old clients you have these aliases
I see there are three docker commands that seem to do very similar things:
docker build
docker create
docker run
What are the differences between these commands?
docker build builds a new image from the source code.
docker create creates a writeable container from the image and prepares it for running.
docker run creates the container (same as docker create) and runs it.
docker build . converts your Dockerfile into an image.
docker create your-image creates a container from your image from step 1.
docker start container_id starts the container from step 2.
docker run image is a shortcut for 2. and 3. (docker create image and
docker start container_id).
Here is the difference between image and container:
Image
An image is a specified snapshot of your filesystem and includes the starting command of your container. An image occupies just disk-space, it does not occupy memory/cpu. To create an image you usually create instructions how to build that image in aDockerfile. FROM and RUN commands in the docker file create the file-snapshot. One may build an image from a docker file with docker build <dockerfile>
Container
You can create new containers with an image. Each container has a file-snapshot which is based on the file-snapshot created by the image. If you start a container it will run the command you specified in your docker file CMD and will use part of your memory and cpu. You can start or stop a container. If you create a container, its not started by default. This means you can't communicate to the container via ports etc. You have to start it first. One may create an container from an image by docker create <image>. When a container has been created it shows the id in the terminal. One may start it with docker start <container_id>.
I am running an instance of docker, and I would like to save my work - the docs just aren't 100% clear on how to do this, so I'm asking here. I opened the docker instance using:
docker run -it [public dockerhub name]
Now I would like to save all my work locally so that I can come back to it. I don't particularly want to check it into dockerhub, unless that's advisable.
Here's what I have done. I have opened a new docker CLI tab, and done docker ps there to find the ID of the running docker instance. Then in the same tab I tried doing this:
docker commit <docker-id> me/myinstance
This gave me a commit hash.
Can I now safely exit the running docker instance? What command would I use to open it again - do I need to store the commit hash, or can I just do docker run -it me/myinstance?
As the docs mention:
You pull an image from Docker hub
You run that image on a container using docker run <image>
When you make changes to a container, you're not changing the underlying image, so those changes are not persisted if the container is stopped. To persist the changes you've made to the container, you create a new image with docker commit <container_id>
In the example that is on Docker docs:
# What containers are running on my system?
$ docker ps
ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED
c3f279d17e0a ubuntu:12.04 /bin/bash 7 days ago
197387f1b436 ubuntu:12.04 /bin/bash 7 days ago
# Create a new image called svendowideit/testimage, tag it as "version3"
$ docker commit c3f279d17e0a svendowideit/testimage:version3
f5283438590d
# What images do I have on my system?
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG ID
svendowideit/testimage version3 f5283438590d
This way, you have persisted the changes to container c3f279d17e0a, on a new image, called svendowideit/testimage:version3.
Now you have an image with your modification, so you can run it as many times as you want on a container:
$ docker run svendowideit/testimage:version3
Again, containers are stateless. Any change you make inside a container, is lost when that container stops. One way to persist data even after a container exists, is by using volumes. This way your container has access to a directory in the host filesystem, that you can read and write.
Changes made inside a container are not lost when the container exits and containers (container applications) are not stateless unless you have specifically separated the data storage from the application (by mounting folders from the host filesystem or sending data to a database outside of the container).
To see your changes persisted in a container, start the old container (docker start ~) instead of creating a new container (docker run ~).
This is easier to do if you name your containers.
ie.
docker run -it --name containerName imageName
do stuff to your container
docker kill containerName
docker start containerName
You will see that your changes are persisted in that container.
You can also commit your container as an image, which can be pushed to a registry or exported to a file.