Move sshd from debug to official but behind feature flag
gianarb opened this issue · 4 comments
I know OSIE has SSH installed, and I think it is a very useful feature to have. I use it in my homelab because I am not installing an operating system in all my hardware, some of it stays ephemeral and only runs OSIE itself. For those, I enable ssh passing a cmdline ssh.key="string" because that's how AlpineLinux works, as you can read from their documentation
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/PXE_boot#Guide_to_options
I pilot what gets passed to OSIE via metadata.facility.facility_code. I find it convenient. Any idea about how we can do something like that?
/cc. @thebsdbox
Yeah we just wrap the ssh image like we did with the dind image. We have a tiny go binary that parses /proc/cmdline and if the feature is there it starts. We could potentially package a bunch of stuff in a debug container. Web UI for console/access file system/get logs/ssh/some level of meminfo page which would allow determining the usage of tinkle and the workflow it runs!!
I just realised ... we can't wrap the container. I wrote it so people could write their own and at build time add their ssh keys. 😬
Now sure what to suggest.
I think we can enable a default user root root, and call it done for now! I like the idea to have something similar to what AlpineLinux does but it does not sound simple enough