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author | Christian Breunig <christian@breunig.cc> | 2023-11-26 13:53:25 +0100 |
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committer | Mergify <37929162+mergify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-11-27 07:41:27 +0000 |
commit | 46236f50a450632ea731897c3bd3326264ca8066 (patch) | |
tree | d91dd8a7c58fdb69365b7a9fdb373c72b258a601 /docker-vyos/README.md | |
parent | 23ffe017e574b0dbbd6647525f4e770c673449fc (diff) | |
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Docker: update README for VyOS inside container
(cherry picked from commit a0d3d87813b9f3f52e43227e0dc35dc9b85b5a30)
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diff --git a/docker-vyos/README.md b/docker-vyos/README.md index 7c1fb6a1..ad0c3881 100644 --- a/docker-vyos/README.md +++ b/docker-vyos/README.md @@ -2,58 +2,81 @@ VyOS can be run as a Docker container on a Linux host with a compatible kernel. +## Build Container -## Building Docker image +To build a Docker image you need to have the whole `vyos-build` repository, not +only a folder with Dockerfile, because some files from this repository are +required for building. -To build a Docker image you need to have the whole `vyos-build` repository, not only a folder with Dockerfile, because some files from this repository are required for building. Docker image with VyOS can be built on Linux host with the next command: -``` -docker build --compress -f Dockerfile -t vyos:version-`date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` --build-arg BUILD_DATE="`date -u --rfc-3339=seconds`" --build-arg VYOS_VERSION=version --build-arg DEBIAN_VERSION=debian --progress plain .. +```console +docker build --compress --file Dockerfile \ + --tag vyos:version-`date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` \ + --build-arg BUILD_DATE="`date -u --rfc-3339=seconds`" \ + --build-arg VYOS_VERSION=version \ + --build-arg DEBIAN_VERSION=debian \ + --progress plain .. ``` Or, if you want to rebuild completely from the scratch (without cache): -``` -docker build --no-cache --pull --compress -f Dockerfile -t vyos:version-`date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` --build-arg BUILD_DATE="`date -u --rfc-3339=seconds`" --build-arg VYOS_VERSION=version --build-arg DEBIAN_VERSION=debian --progress plain .. +```console +docker build --no-cache --pull --compress --file Dockerfile \ + --tag vyos:version-`date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` \ + --build-arg BUILD_DATE="`date -u --rfc-3339=seconds`" \ + --build-arg VYOS_VERSION=version \ + --build-arg DEBIAN_VERSION=debian \ + --progress plain .. ``` -> **NOTE:** You must use proper version value for `DEBIAN_VERSION` variable. It can be only `jessie` (for VyOS 1.2) or `buster` (for VyOS 1.3). +> **_NOTE:_** You must use proper version value for `DEBIAN_VERSION` variable. + It can be only `jessie` (for VyOS 1.2) or `buster` (for VyOS 1.3). -## Running Docker image +## Run Container Docker container with VyOS can be running with the next command: -``` -docker run -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules --privileged --name vyos_inside_docker -d vyos:version +```console +docker run --privileged --detach \ + --volume /lib/modules:/lib/modules \ + --name vyos_inside_docker vyos:version ``` -You need to use the `--privileged` flag because the system actively interacts with a host kernel to perform routing operations and tune networking options. - +You need to use the `--privileged` flag because the system actively interacts +with a host kernel to perform routing operations and tune networking options. **Experimantal:** You can limit access to some system resources with: -``` -docker run --tmpfs /tmp --tmpfs /run --tmpfs /run/lock -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules --privileged --name vyos_inside_docker -d vyos:version +```console +docker run --privileged --detach \ + --tmpfs /tmp \ + --tmpfs /run \ + --tmpfs /run/lock \ + --volume /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro \ + --volume /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \ + --name vyos_inside_docker vyos:version ``` -## Logging into a VyOS container +### Log into container -To open VyOS CLI, you can use SSH connection to the Docker container or run on host: +To open VyOS CLI, you can use SSH connection to the Docker container or run +on host: -``` +```console docker exec -it vyos_inside_docker su vyos ``` - ## Troubleshooting -If in VyOS appears IPv6-related errors, for example, it cannot assign an IPv6 for an interface, it is necessary to enable IPv6 support in Docker. This can be done, by editing `/etc/docker/daemon.json`: +If in VyOS appears IPv6-related errors, for example, it cannot assign an IPv6 +address for an interface, it is necessary to enable IPv6 support in Docker. -``` +This can be done, by editing `/etc/docker/daemon.json`: + +```console { "ipv6": true, "fixed-cidr-v6": "fe80::/64" } - ``` |