Template for LXC intended to provide a minimal rootfs and ran as a daemon

lxc-minimal.sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# lxc: linux Container library

# Authors:
# Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>

# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.

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# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

# Detect use under userns (unsupported)
for arg in "$@"; do
    [ "$arg" = "--" ] && break
    if [ "$arg" = "--mapped-uid" -o "$arg" = "--mapped-gid" ]; then
        echo "This template can't be used for unprivileged containers." 1>&2
        echo "You may want to try the \"download\" template instead." 1>&2
        exit 1
    fi
done

# Make sure the usual locations are in PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

install_minimal()
{
    rootfs=$1

    tree="\
$rootfs/var/run/minimal \
$rootfs/var/empty/minimal \
$rootfs/var/lib/empty/minimal \
$rootfs/etc/init.d \
$rootfs/etc/rc.d \
$rootfs/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts \
$rootfs/dev/shm \
$rootfs/run/shm \
$rootfs/proc \
$rootfs/sys \
$rootfs/bin \
$rootfs/sbin \
$rootfs/usr \
$rootfs/tmp \
$rootfs/home \
$rootfs/root \
$rootfs/lib \
$rootfs/lib64"

    mkdir -p $tree
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        return 1
    fi

    return 0
}

configure_minimal()
{
    rootfs=$1

    cat <<EOF > $rootfs/etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
EOF

    cat <<EOF > $rootfs/etc/group
root:x:0:root
EOF

    return 0
}

copy_configuration()
{
    path=$1
    rootfs=$2
    name=$3

    grep -q "^lxc.rootfs" $path/config 2>/dev/null || echo "lxc.rootfs = $rootfs" >> $path/config
cat <<EOF >> $path/config
lxc.utsname = $name
lxc.pts = 1024
lxc.kmsg = 0
lxc.cap.drop = sys_module mac_admin mac_override sys_time

# When using LXC with apparmor, uncomment the next line to run unconfined:
#lxc.aa_profile = unconfined

lxc.mount.entry = /dev dev none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = /lib lib none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = /bin bin none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = /usr usr none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = /sbin sbin none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-minimal sbin/init none ro,bind 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = proc proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = sysfs sys sysfs ro 0 0
lxc.mount.entry = /etc/init.d etc/init.d none ro,bind 0 0
EOF

    # Oracle Linux and Fedora need the following two bind mounted
    if [ -d /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ]; then
        cat <<EOF >> $path/config
lxc.mount.entry = /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts etc/sysconfig/network-scripts none ro,bind 0 0
EOF
    fi

    if [ -d /etc/rc.d ]; then
        cat <<EOF >> $path/config
lxc.mount.entry = /etc/rc.d etc/rc.d none ro,bind 0 0
EOF
    fi

    # if no .ipv4 section in config, then have the container run dhcp
    grep -q "^lxc.network.ipv4" $path/config || touch $rootfs/run-dhcp

    if [ "$(uname -m)" = "x86_64" ]; then
        cat <<EOF >> $path/config
lxc.mount.entry = /lib64 lib64 none ro,bind 0 0
EOF
    fi
}

usage()
{
    cat <<EOF
$1 -h|--help -p|--path=<path> [--rootfs=<path>]
EOF
    return 0
}

check_for_cmd()
{
    cmd_path=`type $1`
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "The command '$1' $cmd_path is not accessible on the system"
        exit 1
    fi
    # we use cut instead of awk because awk is alternatives symlink on ubuntu
    # and /etc/alternatives isn't bind mounted
    cmd_path=`echo $cmd_path |cut -d ' ' -f 3`
}

options=$(getopt -o hp:n:S: -l help,rootfs:,path:,name: -- "$@")
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        usage $(basename $0)
    exit 1
fi
eval set -- "$options"

while true
do
    case "$1" in
        -h|--help)      usage $0 && exit 0;;
        -p|--path)      path=$2; shift 2;;
        --rootfs)       rootfs=$2; shift 2;;
        -n|--name)      name=$2; shift 2;;
        --)             shift 1; break ;;
        *)              break ;;
    esac
done

if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
    echo "This script should be run as 'root'"
    exit 1
fi

cat << 'EOF' > /tmp/boringd
#! /usr/bin/env bash
/usr/bin/daemon -- watch ls /tmp
EOF
chmod +x /tmp/boringd

if [ $0 = "/sbin/init" ]; then

    PATH="$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin"
    check_for_cmd /usr/lib/lxc/lxc-init
    check_for_cmd /tmp/boringd
    daemon_path=$cmd_path
    echo "init'ing with ${daemon_path}"

    exec /usr/lib/lxc/lxc-init -- $daemon_path
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$path" ]; then
    echo "'path' parameter is required"
    exit 1
fi

# detect rootfs
config="$path/config"
if [ -z "$rootfs" ]; then
    if grep -q '^lxc.rootfs' $config 2>/dev/null ; then
        rootfs=$(awk -F= '/^lxc.rootfs =/{ print $2 }' $config)
    else
        rootfs=$path/rootfs
    fi
fi

install_minimal $rootfs
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "failed to install minimal's rootfs"
    exit 1
fi

configure_minimal $rootfs
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "failed to configure minimal template"
    exit 1
fi

copy_configuration $path $rootfs $name
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "failed to write configuration file"
    exit 1
fi