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Feature: Cockpit Container

Marius Vollmer edited this page Apr 24, 2015 · 5 revisions

Goal: Deliver Cockpit in a Container

  • Pull a docker container and run cockpit
  • What would it take to make Cockpit run really well from a container and be able to configure and control both the server the container is running on, and other servers.
  • Previously we've delivered half-hearted containers, this goes beyond that.
  • Non-goal: This is not about running Cockpit anywhere.
    • We must be ready to run on the target operating system, including architecture, version, assumed dependencies.
  • Non-goal: This won't replace the better way of running Cockpit: having Cockpit delivered with the operating system.

Brainstorming

General brainstorming area ... broken out into specifics below

  • Ultimately, the browser might be the component that downloads the missing UI resources from the general Internet. (mvollmer).

Deploying the Bridge

How do we handle the case if the bridge is not installed.

  • Copy the bridge into the homedir or more likely $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and run it from there
  • Likely reduce the dependencies of the bridge only depends on glib and glibc.
  • Likely reduce the bridge so it's just one file
    • Package reauthorize stuff separately, expect it on the target operating system.
      • Make it part of polkit itself?
  • Container would need to have cockpit-bridge built for multiple archs?

Loading UI Packages

  • If no shell package on target system, assume that cockpit packages have not been installed
  • Have cockpit-bridge be able to send cockpit-ws information about the target operating system
  • Ability for cockpit-ws (in the container) to pick a set of packages from its own cache relevant to target operating system.
  • Still pluggable? Or do we say that only Cockpit running on host is pluggable.

Privileged or not

What do we need to be a privileged container for?

  • Can we run cockpit as an uniprivileged container since we're SSH'ing into the system as our means of gaining access?
    • How would we ssh into localhost, local machine?

Acceptable Limitations

  • Containers cannot socket activate for now.
  • Containers con't do SELinux locking of cockpit-ws, for now.
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