Wolfi toolbox thread

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j0rgeOP•7mo ago

https://github.com/containers/toolbox/issues/1474

GitHub

Consider adding apk based Image like Wolfi or Alpine · Issue #1474 ...

Both seem to be common choices for containers and currently there is no official image, that uses apk as package manager. Of course this can be done using distrobox, but having a more officially su...

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

good news, upstream toolbx-images is willing to accept wolfi, IMO we should "move" our wolfi-base there and maintain it there. As luck would have it, timothee maintains the images repo, and I've maintained alpine's images there already cc @EyeCantCU @89luca89 https://github.com/toolbx-images/images repo and here's my alpine section https://github.com/toolbx-images/images/tree/main/alpine/edge https://github.com/toolbx-images/images/blob/main/.github/workflows/alpine.yaml and here's the workflow. It'd be a quick copy and rename job, I'll try to work on it tonight unless someone else gets to it first

M2•7mo ago

Our wolfi toolbox will now launch in toolbox, but there are two bugs. 1. User is not added to sudoers file. 2. Wolfi doesn't seem to have the xterm terminfo

EyeCantCU•7mo ago

Happy to help out with this though availability today will be scarce. Got a nightmare of images thrown my way NeuVector has been... an experience lol

M2•7mo ago

1. Unsure how toolbox sets sudoers compared to distrobox. 2. The ncurses package simply doesn't have the terminfo. Distrobox mounts in host term info under /usr/local

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

My demo to ya'll is on Monday, and even if it's just "we intend to do this" it'll be enough just knowing that upstream would be receptive to wolfi at all is amazing. We build this, the sysext and a WSL image, and we'll have the Wolfi Subsystem for Linux.

EyeCantCU•7mo ago

I saw! Can't wait. Definitely awesome that they're receptive. Let's definitely get all this built out. Lol, it'd be funny to call the repo for Wolfi SL WSL...

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

I am literally going to call it that WSL is the best undistro for WSL

89luca89•7mo ago

1- no problem now Wolfi has "real" sudo and works well with dbox (and I assume toolbx) 2- this can be a non-issue with dbox but it's an issue with toolbx btw I'm already using a wolfi container for some time now:

[wolfi_distrobox]
image=cgr.dev/chainguard/wolfi-base:latest
pull=true
init=false
start_now=true
replace=true
# Basic utilities for terminal use
additional_packages="lm-sensors"
additional_packages="gawk parallel perl netcat-openbsd bind-tools net-tools openssl rsync rclone tree curl wget"
# TUI Tools
additional_packages="jq tig tmux vim"
# Development packages
additional_packages="git kubectl kind"
additional_packages="gh clang-extras"
additional_packages="clang py3-codespell gcc shfmt nodejs npm yarn rust rust-analyzer go golangci-lint grype"
# Python
additional_packages="py3-pip"
# Generic
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/docker
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/flatpak
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/podman
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/xdg-open
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install mvdan.cc/gofumpt@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install sigs.k8s.io/kind@latest
init_hooks=pip3 install --break-system-packages python-language-server[all] yamllint

[wolfi_distrobox]
image=cgr.dev/chainguard/wolfi-base:latest
pull=true
init=false
start_now=true
replace=true
# Basic utilities for terminal use
additional_packages="lm-sensors"
additional_packages="gawk parallel perl netcat-openbsd bind-tools net-tools openssl rsync rclone tree curl wget"
# TUI Tools
additional_packages="jq tig tmux vim"
# Development packages
additional_packages="git kubectl kind"
additional_packages="gh clang-extras"
additional_packages="clang py3-codespell gcc shfmt nodejs npm yarn rust rust-analyzer go golangci-lint grype"
# Python
additional_packages="py3-pip"
# Generic
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/docker
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/flatpak
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/podman
init_hooks=ln -sf /usr/bin/distrobox-host-exec /usr/local/bin/xdg-open
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/ginkgo@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install mvdan.cc/gofumpt@latest
init_hooks=GOPATH="/usr/local/share/system-go" GOBIN=/usr/local/bin go install sigs.k8s.io/kind@latest
init_hooks=pip3 install --break-system-packages python-language-server[all] yamllint

there are some missing packages (mainly utilities like cpupower) and I'd like to NOT use go install (but these are plans for the future 😉 )

M2•7mo ago

Yepp real sudo is there. It looks like toolbox un comments the group wheel/sudo and doesn't do that for wolfi

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

do we think it's good enough as is to PR? I was thinking of getting it in there and then do some subsequent PRs, I found stuff that can be sliced out of ours to submit. We add things for like instant launch in distrobox that probably not go in this base image?

89luca89•7mo ago

yea toolbx acts on /etc/sudoers.conf while dbox does an augmenting conf in /etc/sudoers.conf.d

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

btw it takes me about 5 minutes every 6 months to maintain the alpine images, and that's only because they release versions, with wolfi it'd be really low mainteance, I can commit to that part

89luca89•7mo ago

instant launch is supported for sure, if we add the missing packages 👍

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

toolbox instant launches right?

M2•7mo ago

Yepp. Our wolfi-toolbox is instant launch

89luca89•7mo ago

toolbox always instant launcher, because it already assumes everything is there, and if it doesn't it's a you-problem

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

hah yeah

M2•7mo ago

Just missing the 2 items I specified for it to work ootb without warnings For distrobox, our image is instant launch

89luca89•7mo ago

@j0rge I'm going to PR the wolfi images no problem 🙂

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

❤️ get that win!

89luca89•7mo ago

there is only one thing i'd like to highlight

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

There is no escape, all will follow The Final Shape, even if you use toolbx.

89luca89•7mo ago

all the -toolbx images do this: RUN echo "%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/toolbox this invalidates the fact that distrobox does NOT enable passwordless sudo on rootful containers, for security reasons

M2•7mo ago

Interesting, that explains how sudo was being setup.

89luca89•7mo ago

simple fix is to use /etc/sudoers.d/sudoers which is the file dbox uses, and that is deleted if the user is rootful

M2•7mo ago

Yeah. Does toolbox even support rootful? I'm remember it didn't a while ago and was a distrobox feature point

89luca89•7mo ago

I think yes, but that is not a security concern with podman podman is not a daemonful service, with the dedicated group to do rootful things docker is so for example, if an user is in the docker group and not in wheel it could work around this by creating a rootful container, and doing sudo in it instead dbox will respect wheel/sudo of the host system, and will not enable passwordless sudo for rootful container

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

man dude, a zstd:chunked wolfi ... smaller out of the box to begin with. bai2u multi gig ubuntu containers lol.

89luca89•7mo ago

localhost/wolfi-toolbox latest de8a8aae537b 3 minutes ago 240 MB registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/distrobox latest 049119b2494e 5 days ago 1.56 GB not bad

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

man dude we should push a zstd tag too, even if it's just for testing. latest and latest-zstd or something then we'd be able to science the bandwidth savings asd they optimize it upstream, which they are working on actively

89luca89•7mo ago

altho, it is missing a single package pinentry that would allow not only instant-entry, but also offline entry right now it will do an apk-search for it, even if it fails and skips it

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

antheas found a bunch of issues and reported them and they're already fixing them, this could be awesome.

89luca89•7mo ago

can you send me some info about? so I can check

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

it's a quick add. New arg to buildah: https://github.com/ublue-os/toolboxes/pull/101/files we reverted it because downstream builders are still ubuntu-22.04, they need to be 24.04 (which is in beta for runners). So we're keeping that unchanged. However if we have one workflow push normally and then another workflow.yml push to a new tag then we can serve both. And then we'll just ask timothee, hey do you mind if we add this latest-zstd tag to these so that we can help test zstd:chunked I'm reasonably certain he'd be up for that considering he's also working on it and it'd be nice to get more containers out there for us to bang on. I can volunteer for posting in a PR or issue about that when we get there, heh.

89luca89•7mo ago

yea I'm opening the PR and tag you so we can discuss there

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

but that should be after intial stuff, no need to do that up front.

89luca89•7mo ago

https://github.com/toolbx-images/images/pull/127

GitHub

feat: add wolfi-toolbox images by 89luca89 · Pull Request #127 · to...

Add wolfi based toolbox images This one also allows instant-enter on distrobox (has some extra packages) Tagging @castrojo for additional discussion/requests

89luca89•7mo ago

being rolling, it should be quite easy to mantain

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

IKR.

EyeCantCU•7mo ago

Ha, that was fast!

89luca89•7mo ago

yea it was basically ready as I was already using it 😂

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

oh I appear to be in the maintainer group for this repo lol. I had forgotten

89luca89•7mo ago

Merged

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

OHHH YEAH! looks like the push creds are wrong for quay.io

89luca89•7mo ago

is it on my PR or on them?

j0rgeOP•7mo ago

it's on them everything builds, it's the push to quay.io that needs creds

89luca89•7mo ago

ah got it didn't follow the CI

EyeCantCU•7mo ago

Awesome work throwing this together Luca!

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