Devops Environment in Docker

The purpose of this project is to create a portable DevOps environment in Docker that can be interacted with seamlessly from the CLI.

This is to avoid the need to setup pre-requisite libraries for python or the need to perform other OS specific modifications to run these utilities.

This container maps the current directory that you are in when executed to allow the utilities to run as it would locally.

The container is setup to run as a non-root user to enforce permissions and security within the files mapped into the container.

Requirements

The Docker CLI tools and a accessible Docker daemon must be installed on the host that is running this script.

To validate:

docker info

Docker Image Setup

To build container locally from source:

docker build --rm -t nmarus/devops-box:latest .

To pull container from Docker Hub: (not yet active)

docker pull nmarus/devops-box:latest

Setting up CLI

To interact with this container as you would locally installed utilities, you must copy or symlink the utility executable(s) into your path. These are scripts that launch the docker container and map the host filesystem to the container.

The container environment is setup to be friendly to CLI interaction too. The utility devops-shell will drop you into the CLI of the container.

Symlink Example:

# create optional symlinks from docker-devops-box repo to local path
BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/ansible
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/ansible-doc
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/ansible-inventory
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/ansible-playbook
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/consul
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/nomad
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/packer
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/terraform
ln -s $PWD/run-in-docker.sh ${BIN_DIR}/devops-shell

Note: Anything that is symlinked to the run-in-docker.sh script will attempt to execute in the container based on the name of the symlink. This allows any container executable to be mapped to the local host. For example if you wanted to access the container vim command, you can link vim from somewhere in your local path to the run-in-docker.sh script. If you rather use an alias, see example run-my-bash script in the opts folder. These will get sourced if the symlink name matches the script name and thus can override the CMD variable.

These shell scripts create a temporary container and when exiting automatically removes the container.

Note: When running the utility shell scripts that spawn docker containers, host directories are mapped into the container. This will happen in 1 of 2 ways depending on where in the local file system you executing the script.

If within your home directory, the script will map your home directory to the container path /home and place you in the current sub directory when entering the container. This is to permit navigating to files and folders that may be at a higher folder level from where the script is ran.

If you are not within your home directory, the script will make a read-only map of your host root to the container path /host. It will also map a writeable volume to the directory from which the script is ran. This is to permit navigating to files and folders that may be at a higher folder level from where the script is ran, but still provide a level of protection to your hosts files.

To remove this protection and map the root fs as writable, set the ENV variable UNSAFE_WRITE_ROOT=true before executing the script

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020 nmarus@gmail.com

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