Docker Images for use in TaskCluster

This folder contains various docker images used in taskcluster as well as other misc docker images which may be useful for hacking on gecko.

Organization

Each folder describes a single docker image. We have two types of image sthat can be defined:

Task Images (build-on-push)
Docker Images (prebuilt)

These images depend on one another, as described in the FROM line at the top of the Dockerfile in each folder.

Images could either be an image intended for pushing to a docker registry, or one that is meant either for local testing or being built as an artifact when pushed to vcs.

Task Images (build-on-push)

Images can be uploaded as a task artifact, indexed under a given namespace, and used in a task by referencing the task ID.

Important to note, these images do not require building and pushing to a docker registry, and are build per push (if necessary) and uploaded as task artifacts.

The decision task that is run per push will determine if the image needs to be built based on the hash of the context directory and if the image exists under the namespace for a given branch.

As an additional convenience, and a precaution of loading images per branch, if an image exists for mozilla-central that has been built with the same context hash, that image will be used for the dependent tasks. This is to ensure there are not multiple images built/used that were built from the same context.

To use within an in-tree task definition, the format is:

image:
  type: 'task-image'
  path: 'public/image.tar'
  taskId: '{{#task_id_for_image}}builder{{/task_id_for_image}}'

Context Directory Hashing

Decision tasks will calculate the sha256 hash of the contents of the image directory and will determine if the image already exists for a given branch and hash or if a new image must be built and indexed.

Note: this is the contents of only the context directory, not the image contents.

The decision task will:

Recursively collect all the paths of all files within the context directory
Sort the filenames alphabetically to ensure the has is consistently calculated
Generate a sha256 hash of the contents of each file.
All file hash will then be combined with their path and used to update the has of the context directory.

This ensures that the hash is consistently calculated and path changes will result in different hashes being generated.

Task Image Index Namespace

Images that are built on push and uploaded as an artifact of a task will be indexed under the following namespaces.

docker.images.v1.{project}.{image_name}.latest
docker.images.v1.{project}.{image_name}.pushdate.{year}.{month}-{day}-{pushtime}
docker.images.v1.{project}.{image_name}.hash.{context_hash}

Not only can images be browsed by the pushdate and context hash, but the 'latest' namespace is meant to view the latest built image. This functions similarly to the 'latest' tag for docker images that are pushed to a registry.

Note that when images are

Docker Registry Images (prebuilt)

Deprecation Warning: Use of prebuilt images should only be used for base images (those that other images will inherit from), or private images that must be stored in a private docker registry account. Existing public images will be converted to images that are built on push and any newly added image should follow this pattern.

These are images that are intended to be pushed to a docker registry and used by specifying the folder name in task definitions. This information is automatically populated by using the 'docker_image' convenience method in task definitions.

Example: image: {#docker_image}builder{/docker_image}

Each image has a version, given by its VERSION file. This should be bumped when any changes are made that will be deployed into taskcluster. Then, older tasks which were designed to run on an older version of the image can still be executed in taskcluster, while new tasks can use the new version.

Each image also has a REGISTRY, defaulting to the REGISTRY in this directory, and specifying the image registry to which the completed image should be uploaded.

Building images

Generally images can be pulled from the registry rather then build locally, but for developing new images its often helpful to hack on them locally.

To build an image, invoke build.sh with the name of the folder (without a trailing slash):

./build.sh base

This is a tiny wrapper around building the docker images via docker build -t $REGISTRY/$FOLDER:$FOLDER_VERSION

Note: If no "VERSION" file present in the image directory, the tag 'latest' will be used and no registry user will be defined. The image is only meant to run locally and will overwrite any existing image with the same name and tag.

On completion, if the image has been tagged with a version and registry, build.sh gives a command to upload the image to the registry, but this is not necessary until the image is ready for production usage. Docker will successfully find the local, tagged image while you continue to hack on the image definitions.

Adding a new image

The docker image primitives are very basic building block for constructing an "image" but generally don't help much with tagging it for deployment so we have a wrapper (./build.sh) which adds some sugar to help with tagging/versioning... Each folder should look something like this:

  - your_amazing_image/
    - your_amazing_image/Dockerfile: Standard docker file syntax
    - your_amazing_image/VERSION: The version of the docker file
      (required* used during tagging)
    - your_amazing_image/REGISTRY: Override default registry
      (useful for secret registries)

Conventions

In some image folders you will see .env files these can be used in conjunction with the --env-file flag in docker to provide a environment with the given environment variables. These are primarily for convenience when manually hacking on the images.

You will also see a system-setup.sh script used to build the image. Do not replicate this technique - prefer to include the commands and options directly in the Dockerfile.

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