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authorTomSweeneyRedHat <tsweeney@redhat.com>2019-09-07 18:28:20 -0400
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Add cgroup v2 info to rootless tutorial
Adding cgroup v2 information to the rootless tutorial. Will post it to a Google Doc to for easier review comments. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hrxU-CYhrKDjMf6cIRuegbyY9pkDv-AlEF-i0I8_kdk Signed-off-by: TomSweeneyRedHat <tsweeney@redhat.com>
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* Podman can not create containers that bind to ports < 1024.
* The kernel does not allow processes without CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE to bind to low ports.
-* Lacking “How To” documentation or documentation in general
-* If /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid not setup for a user, then podman commands
+* “How To” documentation is in patchy at best.
+* If /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid are not setup for a user, then podman commands
can easily fail
* This can be a big issue on machines using Network Based Password information (FreeIPA, Active Directory, LDAP)
* We are working to get support for NSSWITCH on the /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid files.
-* No cgroup Support (hopefully fixed when cgroups V2 happens).
- * Cgroups V1 does not safely support cgroup delegation.
- * Cgroups V2 development for container support is ongoing.
+* No cgroup V1 Support
+ * cgroup V1 does not safely support cgroup delegation.
+ * cgroup V2 is available on Fedora 29 and later and other Linux distributions.
* Can not share container images with CRI-O or other users
* Difficult to use additional stores for sharing content
* Does not work on NFS or parallel filesystem homedirs (e.g. [GPFS](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKCN/gpfs_welcome.html))
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ can easily fail
* No CNI Support
* CNI wants to modify IPTables, plus other network manipulation that requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
* There is potential we could probably do some sort of blacklisting of the relevant plugins, and add a new plugin for rootless networking - slirp4netns as one example and there may be others
-* Cannot use ping
+* Cannot use ping out of the box.
* [(Can be fixed by setting sysctl on host)](https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/troubleshooting.md#5-rootless-containers-cannot-ping-hosts)
-* Requires new shadow-utils (not found in older (RHEL7/Centos7 distros) Should be fixed in RHEL7.7 release
+* Requires new shadow-utils (not found in older (RHEL7/Centos7 distros) Should be fixed in RHEL7.7 release)
* A few commands do not work.
* mount/unmount (on fuse-overlay)
* Only works if you enter the mount namespace with a tool like buildah unshare
- * podman stats (Lack of Cgroup support)
+ * podman stats (Without cgroup V2 support)
* Checkpoint and Restore (CRIU requires root)
* Pause and Unpause (no freezer cgroup)
* Issues with higher UIDs can cause builds to fail