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Implement the rootless-cni-infra container imageless
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As proposed by Akihiro Suda make the rootless-cni-infra container use
the host rootfs instead of an image. This works by mounting the host
rootfs in the user namespace to `$runroot/rootless-cni-infra`
and use this as rootfs for the container.

Second, rewrite the rootless-cni-infra shell script in go to remove the
extra cnitool dependency which is not packaged anywhere. With that we
only need the same dependencies as rootful podman which should be
already installed.

Advantages:
- Works for all architectures podman supports.
- Works without internet connection.
- No extra maintainence of an extra image.

Disadvantages:
- Requires the dependencies to be available on the host (e.g. dnsname
plugin). The user may not have control over those.

Problems:
- It doesn't unmount the rootfs if the the rootless-cni-infra container
is stopped directly.

Also the image version did not respect the `--cni-config-dir` option
properly. It mounted the cni config dir only at container create time
but this option can be used on podman run commands which did not
worked if the rootless-cni-infra container was already running.
This is only possible with the rootfs version.

Live upgrading is possible. If the old infra container is still
running podman talks via the old api to the script. Once the
old infra container is deleted the new imageless infra container
will be created and podman can talk via the new api. A version
label is added to the container to distinguish between old and new.

Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <paul.holzinger@web.de>
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9 changes: 3 additions & 6 deletions contrib/rootless-cni-infra/README.md
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Expand Up @@ -7,19 +7,16 @@ Infra container for CNI-in-slirp4netns.
When a CNI network is specified for `podman run` in rootless mode, Podman launches the `rootless-cni-infra` container to execute CNI plugins inside slirp4netns.

The infra container is created per user, by executing an equivalent of:
`podman run -d --name rootless-cni-infra --pid=host --privileged -v $HOME/.config/cni/net.d:/etc/cni/net.d rootless-cni-infra`.
`podman run -d --name rootless-cni-infra --pid=host --privileged --rootfs /`.
The infra container is automatically deleted when no CNI network is in use.

Podman then allocates a CNI netns in the infra container, by executing an equivalent of:
`podman exec rootless-cni-infra rootless-cni-infra alloc $CONTAINER_ID $NETWORK_NAME $POD_NAME`.
`podman exec rootless-cni-infra rootless-cni-infra alloc $CONTAINER_ID $NETWORK_NAME`.

The allocated netns is deallocated when the container is being removed, by executing an equivalent of:
`podman exec rootless-cni-infra rootless-cni-infra dealloc $CONTAINER_ID $NETWORK_NAME`.

The container images live on `quay.io/libpod/rootless-cni-infra`. The tags have the format `$version-$architecture`. Please make sure to increase the version number in the Containerfile (i.e., `ROOTLESS_CNI_INFRA_VERSION`) when applying changes to this directory. After committing the changes, upload the image(s) with the corresponding tag.

## Directory layout

* `/run/rootless-cni-infra/${CONTAINER_ID}/pid`: PID of the `sleep infinity` process that corresponds to the allocated netns
* `/run/rootless-cni-infra/${CONTAINER_ID}/attached/${NETWORK_NAME}`: CNI result
* `/run/rootless-cni-infra/${CONTAINER_ID}/pid`: PID of the `sleep` process that corresponds to the allocated netns
* `/run/rootless-cni-infra/${CONTAINER_ID}/attached-args/${NETWORK_NAME}`: CNI args
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6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions libpod/network/create.go
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"github.com/containernetworking/cni/pkg/version"
"github.com/containers/common/pkg/config"
"github.com/containers/podman/v2/pkg/domain/entities"
"github.com/containers/podman/v2/pkg/rootless"
"github.com/containers/podman/v2/pkg/util"
"github.com/pkg/errors"
"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
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plugins = append(plugins, NewPortMapPlugin())
plugins = append(plugins, NewFirewallPlugin())
plugins = append(plugins, NewTuningPlugin())
// if we find the dnsname plugin or are rootless, we add configuration for it
// the rootless-cni-infra container has the dnsname plugin always installed
if (HasDNSNamePlugin(runtimeConfig.Network.CNIPluginDirs) || rootless.IsRootless()) && !options.DisableDNS {
// if we find the dnsname plugin installed include it in the config
if HasDNSNamePlugin(runtimeConfig.Network.CNIPluginDirs) && !options.DisableDNS {
if options.Internal {
logrus.Warnf("dnsname and --internal networks are incompatible. dnsname plugin not configured for network %s", name)
} else {
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