moby/api
Cory Snider 57d2d6ef62 Update container OOMKilled flag immediately
The OOMKilled flag on a container's state has historically behaved
rather unintuitively: it is updated on container exit to reflect whether
or not any process within the container has been OOM-killed during the
preceding run of the container. The OOMKilled flag would be set to true
when the container exits if any process within the container---including
execs---was OOM-killed at any time while the container was running,
whether or not the OOM-kill was the cause of the container exiting. The
flag is "sticky," persisting through the next start of the container;
only being cleared once the container exits without any processes having
been OOM-killed that run.

Alter the behavior of the OOMKilled flag such that it signals whether
any process in the container had been OOM-killed since the most recent
start of the container. Set the flag immediately upon any process being
OOM-killed, and clear it when the container transitions to the "running"
state.

There is an ulterior motive for this change. It reduces the amount of
state the libcontainerd client needs to keep track of and clean up on
container exit. It's one less place the client could leak memory if a
container was to be deleted without going through libcontainerd.

Signed-off-by: Cory Snider <csnider@mirantis.com>
2022-08-24 14:59:07 -04:00
..
server Merge pull request #43968 from thaJeztah/implement_GetImageOpts 2022-08-24 19:07:30 +02:00
templates/server swagger: fix "generated code" comment not in correct format 2019-11-05 11:32:37 -08:00
types introduce GetImageOpts to manage image inspect data in backend 2022-08-16 16:49:46 +02:00
common.go API: bump version to 1.43 2022-07-12 10:40:30 +02:00
common_unix.go Update to Go 1.17.0, and gofmt with Go 1.17 2021-08-24 23:33:27 +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 Update container OOMKilled flag immediately 2022-08-24 14:59:07 -04:00

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.