[ovs-discuss] OVS/OVN docker image for each stable release

[Shivaram Mysore]

Guru is correct.  You cannot include a kernel module in a docker image.  

/Shivaram
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> On Nov 11, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 10:08, aginwala <aginwala at asu.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 9:00 AM Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 14:41, aginwala <aginwala at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>> openvswitch.ko ships default with newer kernel but if we want to use say stt, we need to build it with respective kernel for host on which we will run. Hence, to skip host level installation , we pack the modules in container.
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>>> It is not clear to me. Is DKMS enabled here? Or is it that openvswitch/ovs:2.12.0_debian_4.15.0-66-generic will only work on kernel 4.15.0-66-generic?  
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>> No. Dkms is not enabled because idea is to release a new docker image for every new kernel upgrade on compute (Not sure if dkms will help much in container case as we are not installing on host). Do you have any specific use case which? Yes on host with 4.15.0-66-generic.  
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> It will probably be very hard to release each OVS version to so many available kernels. How do you decide which kernel that you want to release a image for? What is the plan here? I think it makes sense to release one image without a kernel module packed with it.
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>>>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:37 PM Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
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>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 14:18, aginwala <aginwala at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all:
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>>>>>> I have pushed two images to public openvswitch org on docker.io for ovs and ovn; 
>>>>>> OVS for ubuntu with 4.15 kernel: openvswitch/ovs:2.12.0_debian_4.15.0-66-generic
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>>>>> Why is the kernel important here? Is the OVS kernel module being packed?
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>>>>>>              run as : docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovsdb-server openvswitch/ovs:2.12.0_debian_4.15.0-66-generic ovsdb-server 
>>>>>>                         docker run -itd --net=host --name=ovs-vswitchd  --volumes-from=ovsdb-server --privileged  openvswitch/ovs:2.12.0_debian_4.15.0-66-generic ovs-vswitchd
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>>>>>> OVN debian docker image:  openvswitch/ovn:2.12_e60f2f2_debian_master as we don't have a branch cut out for ovn yet. (Hence, tagged it with last commit on master)
>>>>>>     Follow steps as per: https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn/blob/master/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst
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>>>>>> Thanks Guru for sorting out the access/cleanups for openvswitch org on docker.io. 
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>>>>>> We can plan to align this docker push for each stable release ahead.
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>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:17 AM aginwala <aginwala at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>> Thanks Guru:
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>>>>>>> Sounds good. Can you please grant user aginwala as admin? I can create two repos ovs and ovn under openvswitch org and can push new stable release versions there. 
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>>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:04 AM Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 09:53, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> I had created a openvswitch repo in docker as a placeholder. Happy to provide it to whoever the admin is.
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>>>>>>>> i.e. You can use the keyword "openvswitch". For e.g., right now, it has one stale image.
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>>>>>>>> docker run -d --net=none openvswitch/ipam:v2.4.90 /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo hello world; sleep 1; done"
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>>>>>>>> So if we want the name "openvswitch", this is one option. If we prefer ovs/ovn or other keywords, then the admin can create a new one.
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>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 13:15, aginwala <aginwala at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi All:
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>>>>>>>>>> As discussed in the meeting today, we all agreed that it will be a good idea to push docker images for each new ovs/ovn stable release. Hence, need help from maintainers Ben/Mark/Justin/Han to address some open action items as it is more of org/ownership/rights related:
>>>>>>>>>> Get new repo created under docker.io with name either ovs/ovn and declare it public repo
>>>>>>>>>> How about copy-rights for running images for open source projects
>>>>>>>>>> Storage: unlimited or some limited GBs
>>>>>>>>>> Naming conventions for docker images ;e.g openswitch/ovn:2.13.1_debian or openswitch/ovn:2.13.1_rhel. Similar for ovs.
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>>>>>>>>>> Once this is done, we can bundle docker image changes in the same release process
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>>>>>>>>>> Please feel free to add any missing piece.
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