sailor

Wannabe portable container system

WARNING this project is still under heavy development, use it at your own risk and pull frequently!

sailor is based on chroot and pkgin, it will create a chrooted environment containing only the needed pieces in order to install and / or run a service.

For now, sailor works on NetBSD, Darwin / Mac OS X and 64-bit RHEL (including variants such as CentOS).

Note that sailor's goal is not to provide bullet-proof security, chroot is definitely not a trustable isolator; instead, sailor is a really convenient way of trying / testing an evironment without compromising your workstation filesystem.

demo

requirements

sailor needs the following third party tools:

pkg_install
pkg_tarup
pkgin
rsync

NetBSD users should have those by default, except for rsync which can be installed with pkgin.

Mac OS X users are encouraged to use the Joyent OS X package repository in order to have a working environment within seconds.

64-bit RHEL (including variants such as CentOS) users are encouraged to follow Joyent Linux package repository in order to install the required tools.

usage

Create a ship

# ./sailor.sh build ./nginx.conf

Run the ship

# ./sailor.sh start ./nginx.conf
Starting nginx.

List running ships

# ./sailor.sh ls
ID                 | name            | configuration file        | uptime    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4ecd1896d35a66c7   | nginx           | examples/nginx.conf       | 00:01:05

Stop a ship

# ./sailor.sh stop 4ecd1896d35a66c7

Destroy a ship

# ./sailor.sh destroy ./nginx.conf

Display the rc.d name for a service

# ./sailor.sh rcd apache
likely name for service: apache

Run commands in the ship

# ./sailor.sh run 4ecd1896d35a66c7 ps axuwww

Enter a ship

# ./sailor.sh enter 4ecd1896d35a66c7

configuration file

A ship is defined by its configuration file which contains:

mandatory

shipname: the convenient name you'd like to give to your ship
shippath: full path to your ship

most likely

services: the rc.d friendly names for services to run(*)
packages: the packages you'd like to install within your ship

(*) the rc.d or init script is generally bundled with the service package, it is it which is capable of starting or stopping the service. Most of the times, it has the same name as the service itself, but it is safer to check this out using sailor's rc.d function.

optional

shipbins: binaries from the host system you'd like to copy to the ship
ro_mounts: read-only mount points to the ship (NetBSD only for now)
rw_mounts: read/write mount points to the ship (NetBSD only for now)
ip_<iface>: IP alias to add to <iface>

run_at_* commands are run in the chroot:

run_at_build: run command at build time, can be repeated
run_at_start: run command at start time, can be repeated
run_at_stop: run command at stop time, can be repeated
run_at_destroy: run command at destroy time, can be repeated

real life examples

In these examples, we will use the sudo -E command to run sailor with root privileges but still keeping environment variables so the ${HOME} variable in the ship configuration file is evaluated as our user's home directory.

Fire up a fully working and isolated nginx + php-fpm stack

Download and install Joyent's OS X boostrap kit if running Mac OS X

$ git clone https://github.com/NetBSDfr/sailor.git
$ cd sailor
$ sudo -E ./sailor.sh build examples/nginxphp.conf
$ sudo -E ./sailor.sh start examples/nginxphp.conf
Starting nginx.
Starting php_fpm.

nginx is listening on port 1080

$ curl -I localhost:1080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.9.4
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:40:53 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.13

PHP source code can be found in nginxphp/var/www/php which you can chown to your own user and populate with the PHP code you want.

nginx configuration is located in nginxphp/opt/pkg/etc/nginx (on OS X), you might want to change its listen port in nginxphp/opt/pkg/etc/nginx/global.conf

Fire up a fully working and isolated nginx + nodejs stack

Download and install Joyent's OS X boostrap kit if running Mac OS X

$ git clone https://github.com/NetBSDfr/sailor.git
$ cd sailor
$ sudo -E ./sailor.sh build examples/nginxnode.conf
$ sudo -E ./sailor.sh start examples/nginxnode.conf 
Starting nginx.
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon
[PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
[PM2] Starting hello.js in fork_mode (1 instance)
[PM2] Done.
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬───────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬────────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid   │ status │ restart │ uptime │ memory │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼──────┼───────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼────────┼──────────┤
│ hello    │ 0  │ fork │ 12874 │ online │ 0       │ 0s     │ 0 B    │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴───────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴────────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app

nginx is listening on port 1080

$ curl http://localhost:1080/
Hello from inside the chroot!

In this example, an nginx server is configured to act as a reverse proxy to a nodejs small web app. The application is started by the pm2 process manager and listens on port 8080. This setup is based on this great documentation and automatize all the steps described.

node source code can be found in nginxphp/var/node which you can chown to your own user and populate with the node code you want.

Others examples

A couple of other examples are available in the examples directory:

namp.conf

A basic apache / MySQL / PHP stack
nginx.conf

A simple nginx server
nginxflaskapi.conf

A full nginx / python / Flask / gunicorn stack running Flask-API to provide an easily programmable REST interface.

Probably more to come...

greetings

This software has been made possible under Mac OS X thanks to Joyent and in particular Jonathan Perkin who's maintaining OS X pkgsrc binary packages.

Thanks to Youri Mouton and his awesome work on Save OS X which makes the use of pkgin on OS X even simpler.

Finally, thanks to the NetBSDfr team for their support, tests and patches.

Sailor icon by Freeplk.

MatthiasPetermann/sailor