Working locally with Docker while on the road.

I just got back from a conference trip to Europe, DockerCon in Copenhagen, All-Systems-Go in Berlin, and then Open Source Summit in Prague.

While I was there, I needed to continue doing the development of some major refactoring of RancherOS for my LinuxKit talk – which meant I needed to be able to “docker pull” from both builds and temporary testing VM’s, from horrible hotel Wifi, and from overloaded conference Wifi – not great.

Because the bandwidth from Australia isn’t wonderful, I had already modified the builds and test tooling to use a local Docker registry mirror – so all I really needed to do was setup the same caching infrastructure I have on my home office network, but on a roaming notebook… and yup, its pretty straightforward:

sven@y260:~$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
cc4f1ff259f7 b8efb18f159b "nginx -g 'daemon ..." 2 weeks ago Up 13 days 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp nginx
458c808f9218 3ebefe7c539b "/entrypoint.sh /e..." 2 weeks ago Up 13 days 0.0.0.0:5555->5000/tcp mirror
e09411b42128 3ebefe7c539b "/entrypoint.sh /e..." 2 weeks ago Up 13 days 0.0.0.0:5000->5000/tcp registry
5d572c8e8658 46fc18186a54 "/bin/sh -c 'chmod..." 2 weeks ago Up 9 days 0.0.0.0:3142->3142/tcp apt-cacher

These containers were started using docker run:


#apt-cacher-ng
docker run -d --network host --restart=always --name apt-cacher -v /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng:/var/cache/apt-cacher-ng svendowideit/apt-cacher-ng
#a docker registry
docker run -d --network host --name registry --restart always registry
#a hub registry mirror
docker run -d --name mirror --network host -v /var/lib/registry-mirror:/registry -e STORAGE_PATH=/registry -e STANDALONE=false -e MIRROR_SOURCE=https:/registry-1.docker.io -e MIRROR_SOURCE_INDEX=https://index.docker.io registry
docker exec mirror sh -c "echo 'proxy:' >> /etc/docker/registry/config.yml"
docker exec mirror sh -c "echo ' remoteurl: https://registry-1.docker.io' >> /etc/docker/registry/config.yml"
docker exec mirror sh -c "sed -i~ 's/addr: :5000/addr: :5555/g' /etc/docker/registry/config.yml"
docker restart mirror

The docker daemon will automatically use the local registry, and the local registry mirror on the “localhost” port 5000&5555 – and so long as you can give your VM’s a valid IP to your host, that too will work..

I have the following in my .bashrc, and these environment vars are used by the build and test tooling to pass on to the VM’s (ok, so this works because I have VMWare workstation on my Linux box):


export APTPROXY=http://$(ip a | grep "inet " | grep global | grep vmnet1 | sed 's/ //' | cut -d " " -f 2 | sed 's/\/.//'):3142
export ENGINE_REGISTRY_MIRROR=http://$(ip a | grep "inet " | grep global | grep vmnet1 | sed 's/ //' | cut -d " " -f 2 | sed 's/\/.//'):5555
export RANCHER_REPO=http://$(ip a | grep "inet " | grep global | grep vmnet1 | sed 's/ //' | cut -d " " -f 2 | sed 's/\/.//')/

Author: Sven Dowideit

You might remember me from tools like http://TWiki.org, http://Foswiki.org, https://github.com/docker/Boot2Docker, Docker documentation, or https://github.com/rancher/os

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