IBM-Cloud/ibm-cloud-developer-tools

Can't install analytics engine plugin in docker Dev Cloud CLI

araujof opened this issue · 3 comments

araujof commented

Summary
Attempting to install analytics-engine on a fresh docker container with the official CLI image returns an error.

Steps to reproduce

  1. docker pull ibmcom/ibm-cloud-developer-tools-amd64
  2. docker run -ti ibmcom/ibm-cloud-developer-tools-amd64
  3. (optional) ibmcloud plugin repo-add Bluemix https://plugins.ng.bluemix.net
  4. ibmcloud plugin install -r Bluemix analytics-engine

Note: I also tried multiple variations of the above, including installing directly from the downloaded analytics-engine plugin binary, without success. I finally created a fresh Ubuntu container, installed the standalone IBM Cloud CLI, and was able to install the plugin directly from the binary.

Operating System
Linux (CLI running on Docker)
Docker Client:
Version: 18.03.1-ce
API version: 1.37
Go version: go1.9.5
Git commit: 9ee9f40
Built: Thu Apr 26 07:17:20 2018
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
Orchestrator: swarm

Supporting details
/ # ibmcloud plugin install analytics-engine
Looking up 'analytics-engine' from repository 'IBM Cloud'...
Plug-in 'analytics-engine 1.0.142' found in repository 'IBM Cloud'
Attempting to download the binary file...
10.21 MiB / 10.21 MiB [=============================================================================================================] 100.00% 2s
10706777 bytes downloaded
Installing binary...
FAILED
Unable to obtain plug-in's metadata. Error: fork/exec /tmp/BluemixFileDownload570754541/analytics-engine-linux-amd64-1.0.142: no such file or directory

Development "done" checklist

  • Test case to verify
  • Public Documentation updated
  • Change added to "release notes" as appropriate
  • Notification to stakeholders (OM, other squads, etc)
archerzz commented

@araujof the linux version of analytics-engine is built with CGO enabled, thus it requires glibc. Unfortunately, the docker image we provide is based on alpine linux which doesn't provide glibc. Glibc is GPLv3 which will cause legal issues for us.

I'll notify the owner of analytics-engine to double check the necessity of glibc.

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archerzz commented

Here is the similar issue on docker alpine

And there is actually a work-around for this, but I don't want to adopt it, since GPLv3 is a legal issue.

steveclay commented

@araujof the problem is actually with the analytics-engine plugin, unfortunately. Are you able to use the work-around shared by Archer until that plugin can be fixed?