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authorW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>2018-12-02 21:22:08 -0800
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libpod/container_internal: Deprecate implicit hook directories
Part of the motivation for 800eb863 (Hooks supports two directories, process default and override, 2018-09-17, #1487) was [1]: > We only use this for override. The reason this was caught is people > are trying to get hooks to work with CoreOS. You are not allowed to > write to /usr/share... on CoreOS, so they wanted podman to also look > at /etc, where users and third parties can write. But we'd also been disabling hooks completely for rootless users. And even for root users, the override logic was tricky when folks actually had content in both directories. For example, if you wanted to disable a hook from the default directory, you'd have to add a no-op hook to the override directory. Also, the previous implementation failed to handle the case where there hooks defined in the override directory but the default directory did not exist: $ podman version Version: 0.11.2-dev Go Version: go1.10.3 Git Commit: "6df7409cb5a41c710164c42ed35e33b28f3f7214" Built: Sun Dec 2 21:30:06 2018 OS/Arch: linux/amd64 $ ls -l /etc/containers/oci/hooks.d/test.json -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 184 Dec 2 16:27 /etc/containers/oci/hooks.d/test.json $ podman --log-level=debug run --rm docker.io/library/alpine echo 'successful container' 2>&1 | grep -i hook time="2018-12-02T21:31:19-08:00" level=debug msg="reading hooks from /usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d" time="2018-12-02T21:31:19-08:00" level=warning msg="failed to load hooks: {}%!(EXTRA *os.PathError=open /usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d: no such file or directory)" With this commit: $ podman --log-level=debug run --rm docker.io/library/alpine echo 'successful container' 2>&1 | grep -i hook time="2018-12-02T21:33:07-08:00" level=debug msg="reading hooks from /usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d" time="2018-12-02T21:33:07-08:00" level=debug msg="reading hooks from /etc/containers/oci/hooks.d" time="2018-12-02T21:33:07-08:00" level=debug msg="added hook /etc/containers/oci/hooks.d/test.json" time="2018-12-02T21:33:07-08:00" level=debug msg="hook test.json matched; adding to stages [prestart]" time="2018-12-02T21:33:07-08:00" level=warning msg="implicit hook directories are deprecated; set --hooks-dir="/etc/containers/oci/hooks.d" explicitly to continue to load hooks from this directory" time="2018-12-02T21:33:07-08:00" level=error msg="container create failed: container_linux.go:336: starting container process caused "process_linux.go:399: container init caused \"process_linux.go:382: running prestart hook 0 caused \\\"error running hook: exit status 1, stdout: , stderr: oh, noes!\\\\n\\\"\"" (I'd setup the hook to error out). You can see that it's silenly ignoring the ENOENT for /usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d and continuing on to load hooks from /etc/containers/oci/hooks.d. When it loads the hook, it also logs a warning-level message suggesting that callers explicitly configure their hook directories. That will help consumers migrate, so we can drop the implicit hook directories in some future release. When folks *do* explicitly configure hook directories (via the newly-public --hooks-dir and hooks_dir options), we error out if they're missing: $ podman --hooks-dir /does/not/exist run --rm docker.io/library/alpine echo 'successful container' error setting up OCI Hooks: open /does/not/exist: no such file or directory I've dropped the trailing "path" from the old, hidden --hooks-dir-path and hooks_dir_path because I think "dir(ectory)" is already enough context for "we expect a path argument". I consider this name change non-breaking because the old forms were undocumented. Coming back to rootless users, I've enabled hooks now. I expect they were previously disabled because users had no way to avoid /usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d which might contain hooks that required root permissions. But now rootless users will have to explicitly configure hook directories, and since their default config is from ~/.config/containers/libpod.conf, it's a misconfiguration if it contains hooks_dir entries which point at directories with hooks that require root access. We error out so they can fix their libpod.conf. [1]: https://github.com/containers/libpod/pull/1487#discussion_r218149355 Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
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@@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ CGroup manager to use for container cgroups. Supported values are cgroupfs or sy
Path to where the cpu performance results should be written
+**--hooks-dir**=**path**
+
+Each `*.json` file in the path configures a hook for Podman containers. For more details on the syntax of the JSON files and the semantics of hook injection, see `oci-hooks(5)`. Podman and libpod currently support both the 1.0.0 and 0.1.0 hook schemas, although the 0.1.0 schema is deprecated.
+
+This option may be set multiple times; paths from later options have higher precedence (`oci-hooks(5)` discusses directory precedence).
+
+For the annotation conditions, libpod uses any annotations set in the generated OCI configuration.
+
+For the bind-mount conditions, only mounts explicitly requested by the caller via `--volume` are considered. Bind mounts that libpod inserts by default (e.g. `/dev/shm`) are not considered.
+
+If `--hooks-dir` is unset for root callers, Podman and libpod will currently default to `/usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d` and `/etc/containers/oci/hooks.d` in order of increasing precedence. Using these defaults is deprecated, and callers should migrate to explicitly setting `--hooks-dir`.
+
**--log-level**
Log messages above specified level: debug, info, warn, error (default), fatal or panic
@@ -161,18 +173,6 @@ the exit codes follow the `chroot` standard, see below:
The mounts.conf file specifies volume mount directories that are automatically mounted inside containers when executing the `podman run` or `podman start` commands. When Podman runs in rootless mode, the file `$HOME/.config/containers/mounts.conf` is also used. Please refer to containers-mounts.conf(5) for further details.
-**OCI hooks JSON** (`/etc/containers/oci/hooks.d/*.json`, `/usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d/*.json`)
-
- Each `*.json` file in `/etc/containers/oci/hooks.d` and `/usr/share/containers/oci/hooks.d` configures a hook for Podman containers, with `/etc/containers/oci/hooks.d` having higher precedence. For more details on the syntax of the JSON files and the semantics of hook injection, see `oci-hooks(5)`.
-
- Podman and libpod currently support both the 1.0.0 and 0.1.0 hook schemas, although the 0.1.0 schema is deprecated.
-
- For the annotation conditions, libpod uses any annotations set in the generated OCI configuration.
-
- For the bind-mount conditions, only mounts explicitly requested by the caller via `--volume` are considered. Bind mounts that libpod inserts by default (e.g. `/dev/shm`) are not considered.
-
- Hooks are not used when running in rootless mode.
-
**policy.json** (`/etc/containers/policy.json`)
Signature verification policy files are used to specify policy, e.g. trusted keys, applicable when deciding whether to accept an image, or individual signatures of that image, as valid.