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* auto-update: clarify systemd-unit requirementsValentin Rothberg2020-07-06
| | | | | | | | | | Clarify in the help message and the man page that auto updates only work with systemd units that are similar to the ones from `generate systemd --new`. Units that merely start/stop a container do not work as they will use the same image. Fixes: #6793 Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>
* Docs: consistency between man / --helpEd Santiago2020-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New functionality in hack/man-page-checker: start cross- referencing the man page 'Synopsis' line against the output of 'podman foo --help'. This is part 1, flag/option consistency. Part 2 (arg consistency) is too big and will have to wait for later. flag/option consistency means: if 'podman foo --help' includes the string '[flags]' in the Usage message, make sure the man page includes '[*options*]' in its Synopsis line, and vice-versa. This found several inconsistencies, which I've fixed. While doing this I realized that Cobra automatically includes a 'Flags:' subsection in its --help output for all subcommands that have defined flags. This is great - it lets us cross-check against the usage synopsis, and make sure that '[flags]' is present or absent as needed, without fear of human screwups. If a flag-less subcommand ever gets extended with flags, but the developer forgets to add '[flags]' and remove DisableFlagsInUseLine, we now have a test that will catch that. (This, too, caught two instances which I fixed). I don't actually know if the new man-page-checker functionality will work in CI: I vaguely recall that it might run before 'make podman' does; and also vaguely recall that some steps were taken to remedy that. Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>
* Fix typo in manpage for `podman auto update`.Peter Oliver2020-06-23
| | | | Signed-off-by: Peter Oliver <git@mavit.org.uk>
* Give `auto-update` ability to use per-container authfile specified by label.Ondřej Kraus2020-05-17
| | | | Signed-off-by: Ondřej Kraus <neverberlerfellerer@gmail.com>
* auto-update: support authfilesValentin Rothberg2020-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | Support using custom authfiles for auto updates by adding a new `--authfile` flag and passing it down into the backend. Also do some minor fixes in the help text and the man page. Fixes: #6159 Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>
* auto updatesValentin Rothberg2020-03-17
Add support to auto-update containers running in systemd units as generated with `podman generate systemd --new`. `podman auto-update` looks up containers with a specified "io.containers.autoupdate" label (i.e., the auto-update policy). If the label is present and set to "image", Podman reaches out to the corresponding registry to check if the image has been updated. We consider an image to be updated if the digest in the local storage is different than the one of the remote image. If an image must be updated, Podman pulls it down and restarts the container. Note that the restarting sequence relies on systemd. At container-creation time, Podman looks up the "PODMAN_SYSTEMD_UNIT" environment variables and stores it verbatim in the container's label. This variable is now set by all systemd units generated by `podman-generate-systemd` and is set to `%n` (i.e., the name of systemd unit starting the container). This data is then being used in the auto-update sequence to instruct systemd (via DBUS) to restart the unit and hence to restart the container. Note that this implementation of auto-updates relies on systemd and requires a fully-qualified image reference to be used to create the container. This enforcement is necessary to know which image to actually check and pull. If we used an image ID, we would not know which image to check/pull anymore. Fixes: #3575 Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>