Development report for 22 May 2017

The tenth weekly development report. Feel free to send PRs if you want to add to these reports (or correct them).

There is now a new linuxkit/virtsock repository that contains Go bindings and sample code for Hyper-V sockets and virtio sockets.

A SIG Security has been instituted and there will be a call on 24 May 2017.

Overview

• We have mostly added a registry and hub org override so you can do make ORG=myorg when building packages, rather than pushing to the linuxkit org.
• ongoing work has continued to move all builds to use the same Alpine base package. linuxkit/linuxkit#1856 @rneugeba
• Label support - images may now specify an org.mobyproject.config label which contains a JSON version of the config. Anything set in this config will be the default, but can be overridden by the yaml file. In many cases this means that the yaml is nor needed, simplifying the config a lot. linuxkit/linuxkit#1862 @justincormack
• Testing has been significantly improved and more tests are being added.

PRs merged

Kernel and Base:

• Update Hyper-V patches for 4.11 and add Hub org override for kernel builds linuxkit/linuxkit#1844 @justincormack @rneugeba
• kernel: Add vmlinux to debug builds linuxkit/linuxkit#1849 @rneugeba
• Update containerd linuxkit/linuxkit#1861 @justincormack

Projects:

• add IMA namespacing project linuxkit/linuxkit#1857 @guimagalhaes @riyazdf @justincormack

CLI:

• Allow forcing qemu backend to use container via command line linuxkit/linuxkit#1854 @rneugeba @ijc25
• Pass --tty to docker run when running Qemu via a container linuxkit/linuxkit#1855 @justincormack @rneugeba @ijc25

Tests/CI:

• Tidy up the tests linuxkit/linuxkit#1830 @talex5 @justincormack @rneugeba
• Save contents of test/_results after building linuxkit/linuxkit-ci#5 @talex5
• Turn on vm.overcommit_memory on GCP builder linuxkit/linuxkit-ci#7 @rneugeba @talex5

Documentation:

• Add a section on custom kernel builds linuxkit/linuxkit#1838 @justincormack @rneugeba
• Document the CI setup linuxkit/linuxkit#1840 @dave-tucker @talex5 @justincormack
• update SIG agenda with IMA namespace support linuxkit/linuxkit#1851 @tych0 @justincormack
• Fix Github language detection linuxkit/linuxkit#1842 @dave-tucker

PRs closed without merge

• LinuxKit push and run on Azure - still being worked on linuxkit/linuxkit#1864 @radu-matei

Issues of interest

• linuxkit/linuxkit#1835 Build my own kernel was closed (@rneugeba @justincormack @yankunsam)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1841 Windows moby build failed was closed (@rneugeba @tippexs)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1845 [Question] Run service container with elevated privileges was closed (@radu-matei)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1846 Can busybox in the root fs be stripped down more? was closed (@rneugeba @justincormack @avsm)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1847 Selection of architecture in config by moby tool was closed (@mor1)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1115 bios iso test was opened and closed (@rneugeba @justincormack)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1429 DockerCon and open source planning was opened and closed (@rneugeba)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1453 unify nameing of compile containers was opened and closed (@rneugeba)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1616 HVSock related crash with 17.05.0-rc1 was opened and closed (@rneugeba @simonferquel)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1661 With containerd, sometimes service containers don't get started was opened and closed (@rneugeba)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1824 Set docker hub repository linuxkit as variable was opened and closed (@rneugeba @pwFoo)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1828 Arrow keys do not work after boot with qemu running in a container was opened and closed (@ijc25 @rneugeba @mrmodolo)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1859 oomScoreAdj not working had 0 event ()
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1863 linuxkit initial make failed on Windows had 0 event (@justincormack)
• linuxkit/rtf#14 Honour ordering for mixed tests/subgroups had 0 event ()
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1742 Handle kernel module loading better had 1 event (@pwFoo)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1767 no host networking on Linux/qemu had 1 event (@justincormack)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1852 [Request] Update sysctl.conf and limits.conf defaults had 1 event (@rneugeba @justincormack)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1376 kernel hang in fchownat? had 2 events (@djs55 @dsheets @rneugeba)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1377 [tracking] ARM boot status had 2 events (@rneugeba @techninja1008 @mor1)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1692 Proposal: example for Minio S3 as an appliance had 2 events (@alexellis @rneugeba)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1848 Hyper-V socket crash with 4.11 kernels had 2 events (@rneugeba @dcui)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#492 preload a registry into test base image had 2 events (@justincormack @rneugeba)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1426 replace busybox init had 3 events (@justincormack @pwFoo)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1836 Trying to output as .vhd hangs / takes a lot of time had 3 events (@justincormack @radu-matei @rneugeba)
• linuxkit/rtf#13 Add ability to run a single test or a group had 3 events (@rneugeba @dave-tucker)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1839 After halt, it will been blocked and have no response had 4 events (@yankunsam @avsm @rneugeba @thebsdbox)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1837 ctr exec -t hangs had 6 events (@FrenchBen @avsm @rneugeba @justincormack)
• linuxkit/linuxkit#1421 Add build support for Azure to moby build had 7 events (@justincormack @radu-matei)

Other reports in this series can be browsed directly in the repository at linuxkit/linuxkit:/reports.