How to use docker image of operator-sdk with 'bundle validate' ?

[Jeansen]

Type of question

General operator-related help

Question

What did you do?

If I want to run e.g.:

docker run --rm  quay.io/operator-framework/operator-sdk:latest bundle validate local-reg/some/image:tag

Then this is not possible because from within the container operator-sdk cannot pull the specified image.

What did you expect to see?

I'd expect the command to succeed or have some documentation about how to do it.

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

A workaround would be to run the above command outside the container. But especially in a CI/CD Environment I'd like to run it from within the official conatienr.

Environment

Operator type:

Kubernetes cluster type:

$ operator-sdk version

$ go version (if language is Go)

$ kubectl version

Additional context

[acornett21]

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[acornett21]

Hi @Jeansen the issue you are running into isn't an operator-sdk issue, it's a docker in docker issue. To do docker in docker you'd need to be able to run docker as privileged on the host system. Usually CI systems pull in the operator-sdk binary and execute against that.

[Jeansen]

Hi @acornett21 Does this image even support docker in docker, then? Even with --privileged it is the same result and does not work.

[acornett21]

That's correct, because operator sdk image does not ship with docker inside of it. It doesn't make sense for the application to have to have a hard dependency on docker, this is why the --image-builder flag is there.

The --image-builder=none flag should accomplish what you are looking for, if not the only option would be to use the binary.

[Jeansen]

Oh, I see. If I build a custom Docker image where I include my ca-trust and update it accordingly during image creation, then it works. Otherwise I get an X509 error. Unfortunately, it looks like there are no flags to skip tls verification or even ad a ca, as there are with bundle-upgrade. Or am I simply overlooking something?

[acornett21]

@Jeansen I really am not following your use case, or why you would need to add a CA cert to a bundle image. A bundle image is static content of the files in an operators /bundle folder built from a scratch image. The bundle validate cmd does not run the operator in a cluster, it does static analysis of the files (apis,csv,etc yamls). bundle-upgrade and bundle-run on the other hand do require a cluster.

If we look at the below example there are no errors

[vagrant@localhost ~]$ docker run quay.io/operator-framework/operator-sdk:latest bundle validate --image-builder=none quay.io/opdev/simple-demo-operator-bundle:v0.0.7
time="2024-02-14T22:25:30Z" level=info msg="Unpacking image layers"
time="2024-02-14T22:25:32Z" level=warning msg="Warning: Value : (simple-demo-operator.v0.0.7) csv.Spec.minKubeVersion is not informed. It is recommended you provide this information. Otherwise, it would mean that your operator project can be distributed and installed in any cluster version available, which is not necessarily the case for all projects."
time="2024-02-14T22:25:32Z" level=info msg="All validation tests have completed successfully"

What errors are you seeing? What CI system is this? Where is it running?

[Jeansen]

@acornett21 My use case ist simple. I've got a local registry where the currently built bundle resides. Before I create a catalog, I'd like to validate the bundle. Since the registry is accessed ONLY via https, I need to either skip TLS checks or have the ca-cert available. The latter one I could work around by creating a custom image based on the operator-sdk image. I do not want to have any tools I need installed on the build CI/CD server. Everything is done from within different containers. So, if I use the provided image dircectly, I get :

time="2024-02-15T17:21:14Z" level=info msg="Unpacking image layers"
time="2024-02-15T17:21:14Z" level=info msg="trying next host" error="failed to do request: Head \"https://proxy-ng:443/v2/quarkus/cis-op-bdl/manifests/v1.2.0\": tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" host="proxy-ng:443"
time="2024-02-15T17:21:14Z" level=fatal msg="error unpacking image proxy-ng:443/quarkus/cis-op-bdl:v1.2.0: error resolving name for image ref proxy-ng:443/quarkus/cis-op-bdl:v1.2.0: failed to do request: Head \"https://proxy-ng:443/v2/quarkus/cis-op-bdl/manifests/v1.2.0\": tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority"

And - my solution with the extended image put aside - I have not way of telling the operator-sdk container where to find my ca-file or to skip validation (although that is also not the best solution). And mounting it into the container does not work (yet) because my host ist Debian whereas the image is based on RHEL.

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