moby/api
Kir Kolyshkin 596ca142e0 daemon: use 'private' ipc mode by default
This changes the default ipc mode of daemon/engine to be private,
meaning the containers will not have their /dev/shm bind-mounted
from the host by default. The benefits of doing this are:

 1. No leaked mounts. Eliminate a possibility to leak mounts into
    other namespaces (and therefore unfortunate errors like "Unable to
    remove filesystem for <ID>: remove /var/lib/docker/containers/<ID>/shm:
    device or resource busy").

 2. Working checkpoint/restore. Make `docker checkpoint`
    not lose the contents of `/dev/shm`, but save it to
    the dump, and be restored back upon `docker start --checkpoint`
    (currently it is lost -- while CRIU handles tmpfs mounts,
    the "shareable" mount is seen as external to container,
    and thus rightfully ignored).

3. Better security. Currently any container is opened to share
   its /dev/shm with any other container.

Obviously, this change will break the following usage scenario:

 $ docker run -d --name donor busybox top
 $ docker run --rm -it --ipc container:donor busybox sh
 Error response from daemon: linux spec namespaces: can't join IPC
 of container <ID>: non-shareable IPC (hint: use IpcMode:shareable
 for the donor container)

The soution, as hinted by the (amended) error message, is to
explicitly enable donor sharing by using --ipc shareable:

 $ docker run -d --name donor --ipc shareable busybox top

Compatibility notes:

1. This only applies to containers created _after_ this change.
   Existing containers are not affected and will work fine
   as their ipc mode is stored in HostConfig.

2. Old backward compatible behavior ("shareable" containers
   by default) can be enabled by either using
   `--default-ipc-mode shareable` daemon command line option,
   or by adding a `"default-ipc-mode": "shareable"`
   line in `/etc/docker/daemon.json` configuration file.

3. If an older client (API < 1.40) is used, a "shareable" container
   is created. A test to check that is added.

Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
2019-03-09 18:57:42 -08:00
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server daemon: use 'private' ipc mode by default 2019-03-09 18:57:42 -08:00
templates/server Fix API template to not use "golang.org/x/net/context" 2018-07-13 09:54:24 +02:00
types docs follow-ups for networks "dangling" filter 2019-02-28 17:54:31 +01:00
common.go Update API version to v1.40 2018-10-26 15:34:27 +02:00
common_unix.go Various code-cleanup 2018-05-23 17:50:54 +02:00
common_windows.go Add canonical import comment 2018-02-05 16:51:57 -05:00
README.md API: minor fixes in the README 2017-10-11 16:12:10 +02:00
swagger-gen.yaml Use a config to generate swagger api types 2016-10-31 11:13:41 -04:00
swagger.yaml docs follow-ups for networks "dangling" filter 2019-02-28 17:54:31 +01:00

Working on the Engine API

The Engine API is an HTTP API used by the command-line client to communicate with the daemon. It can also be used by third-party software to control the daemon.

It consists of various components in this repository:

  • api/swagger.yaml A Swagger definition of the API.
  • api/types/ Types shared by both the client and server, representing various objects, options, responses, etc. Most are written manually, but some are automatically generated from the Swagger definition. See #27919 for progress on this.
  • cli/ The command-line client.
  • client/ The Go client used by the command-line client. It can also be used by third-party Go programs.
  • daemon/ The daemon, which serves the API.

Swagger definition

The API is defined by the Swagger definition in api/swagger.yaml. This definition can be used to:

  1. Automatically generate documentation.
  2. Automatically generate the Go server and client. (A work-in-progress.)
  3. Provide a machine readable version of the API for introspecting what it can do, automatically generating clients for other languages, etc.

Updating the API documentation

The API documentation is generated entirely from api/swagger.yaml. If you make updates to the API, edit this file to represent the change in the documentation.

The file is split into two main sections:

  • definitions, which defines re-usable objects used in requests and responses
  • paths, which defines the API endpoints (and some inline objects which don't need to be reusable)

To make an edit, first look for the endpoint you want to edit under paths, then make the required edits. Endpoints may reference reusable objects with $ref, which can be found in the definitions section.

There is hopefully enough example material in the file for you to copy a similar pattern from elsewhere in the file (e.g. adding new fields or endpoints), but for the full reference, see the Swagger specification.

swagger.yaml is validated by hack/validate/swagger to ensure it is a valid Swagger definition. This is useful when making edits to ensure you are doing the right thing.

Viewing the API documentation

When you make edits to swagger.yaml, you may want to check the generated API documentation to ensure it renders correctly.

Run make swagger-docs and a preview will be running at http://localhost. Some of the styling may be incorrect, but you'll be able to ensure that it is generating the correct documentation.

The production documentation is generated by vendoring swagger.yaml into docker/docker.github.io.