[atlas-sw-probes] Feedback from today/yesterday

Hi everyone,

Happy to see progress on software probes :). I will try to deploy it on our raspberries on the weekend.

My thoughts on the docker stuff, we should aim to make it run with alpine linux before we release an official container, because a CentOS container seems to be too bloated. 

Storage outside of the container should be no problem, I suggest we make a docker-compose file to setup all the storage stuff etc.. If there is an upgrade script between versions we should run the upgrade script at every container start.

Best,
Annika 

> On 24. Oct 2019, at 09:21, Robert Kisteleki <robert at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for the report, it's really helpful! We'll have to see if some
> of this should be turned into github issues -- there are pros and cons
> as always.
> 
> On 2019-10-24 05:10, Tobias Sachs wrote:
>> 2. What are your thoughts about a 'curl https://install.atlas.ripe.com <https://install.atlas.ripe.com/> |
>> bash' ?
>> I know there are many pros and cons for such a setup but overall it
>> would make the process simpler.
> 
> It's possible. I'm personally against piping stuff you just downloaded
> into shell but YMMV :-) In any case, one would have to go through
> prompts and such anyway, for example to check GPG key ids and hashes and
> such.
> 
>> 3. When you visit https://atlas.ripe.net/apply/swprobe/ <https://atlas.ripe.net/apply/swprobe/> without being
>> logged in it redirects to /denied. Ok, logging in.., hmm, still denied
>> :o Turns out that /denied does not check the status from the user after
>> SSO login and SSO simply redirects you back.
> 
> Yes, that's annoying. But, this is only applicable during the testing
> period so maybe it's not worth solving...
> 
>> 4. Near my Probes and only my is „(Register)“, is this on purpose?
> 
> No, that will need to go away. It's also a typical example of the
> zillion small things we need to adapt for sw probes. Thanks for pointing
> it out.
> 
>> 5. I managed to make a functional Dockerfile.
>> https://gist.github.com/Knight1/f903d5230890f8fa283601bee1494280
>> 
>> Important infos
>> - There is no check for the ripe files 
>> - You have to manually copy the files from the source to the mounted
>> docker folder 
>> 
>> Testing
>> 1. docker build -t atlas-sw .
>> 2. docker run -it --rm -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro
>> --cap-add=sys_admin --name=atlas atlas-sw
>> 3. docker cp atlas:/var/atlas-probe/ /opt/docker/atlas-probe/
>> 4. docker run -it --rm -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -v
>> /opt/docker/atlas-probe/:/var/atlas-probe/ --cap-add=sys_admin
>> --name=atlas --memory=128m atlas-sw
> 
> Nice!
> 
>> 6. Any ideas about an official Docker package? Because the container is
>> just running fine :o https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/1000013/ <https://atlas.ripe.net/probes/1000013/>
>> Sure I will monitor the logs and there are some bugs I know to
>> report/fix but in summary it is running and reporting. I only tested
>> ping :o 
> 
> I believe there will be demand for a docker version, so I'm happy that
> it's emerging! The way I see it there are some issues to resolve:
> * permanent storage of key material, so outside the container?
> * how to handle upgrading if there's a new (upstream) available
> * perhaps more to make this version sustainable
> 
> It's be nice to get to a point where we can claim the docker version is
> as complete as any other release in all respects.
> 
>> 7. Has someone managed to migrate a ssh private key to a new host? I
>> know that the system is lurking for a file to know about the
>> initialization status but in the file that manages the initialization
>> the statefile is from $1
> 
> Can you explain what problem you want to solve? If you want to "move"
> your probe from one server to another as a one-off action, you can
> always just install the new one, submit its key to us as a replacement
> [almost implemented :-)] and stop the old instance.
> 
> Cheers,
> Robert
> 
>> Cheers!
>> Tobias

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