docker-env-setup.md

Nydus Setup for Docker(Moby) Environment

Install Nydus Snapshotter for Docker(Moby) with Systemd

1. Docker(Moby) newer than 5c1d6c957b97321c8577e10ddbffe6e01981617a is needed on your host. The commit is expected to be included in Docker v24.

git clone https://github.com/moby/moby
cd moby
make binary
cd bundles/binary
sudo systemctl stop docker
sudo systemctl stop containerd
sudo cp ./* /usr/bin/

2. Download nydus-snapshotter release tarball from the release page.

# Get the latest version. If this version does not work for you, you can try v0.6.0
TAG=`curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/containerd/nydus-snapshotter/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -f4 -d "\""`
wget https://github.com/containerd/nydus-snapshotter/releases/download/"$TAG"/nydus-snapshotter-"$TAG"-x86_64.tgz
tar -xzvf nydus-snapshotter-"$TAG"-x86_64.tgz
sudo install -D -m 755 nydus-snapshotter/containerd-nydus-grpc /usr/local/bin

wget -O /etc/nydus/nydusd-config.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containerd/nydus-snapshotter/"$TAG"/misc/snapshotter/nydusd-config.fusedev.json
wget -O /etc/nydus/config.toml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containerd/nydus-snapshotter/"$TAG"/misc/snapshotter/config.toml

3. Download nydus image service release tarball from the release page.

# Get the latest version. If this version does not work for you, you can try v2.1.4
TAG=`curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/dragonflyoss/nydus/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -f4 -d "\""`
wget https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus/releases/download/"$TAG"/nydus-static-"$TAG"-linux-amd64.tgz
tar -xzvf nydus-static-"$TAG"-linux-amd64.tgz
sudo install -D -m 755 nydus-static/* /usr/local/bin

4. Enable containerd-snapshotter feature and nydussnapshotter in Docker. Add the following to docker's configuration file (typically: /etc/docker/daemon.json).

{
  "features": {
    "containerd-snapshotter": true
  },
  "storage-driver": "nydus"
}

5. Enable nydus snapshotter in containerd. Add the following configuration to containerd's configuration file (typically: /etc/containerd/config.toml).

version = 2

# Plug nydus snapshotter into containerd
[proxy_plugins]
  [proxy_plugins.nydus]
    type = "snapshot"
    address = "/run/containerd-nydus/containerd-nydus-grpc.sock"

6. Install fuse

• centos

# centos 7
sudo yum install fuse
# centos 8
sudo dnf install fuse

sudo modprobe fuse

• ubuntu

sudo apt-get install fuse
sudo modprobe fuse

7. Start nydus-snapshotter and restart containerd and docker

# install nydus snapshotter service
wget -O /etc/systemd/system/nydus-snapshotter.service https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containerd/nydus-snapshotter/main/misc/snapshotter/nydus-snapshotter.fusedev.service
sudo systemctl enable --now nydus-snapshotter
sudo systemctl restart containerd

sudo sed -i "s/fd:/unix:/g" /lib/systemd/system/docker.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart docker

8. Run nydus image in docker

# Start local registry
sudo docker run -d --restart=always -p 5000:5000 registry
# Convert Nydus image
sudo nydusify convert --source ubuntu --target localhost:5000/ubuntu-nydus
# Run Nydus image
sudo docker run --rm -it localhost:5000/ubuntu-nydus:latest bash

Install Docker Nydus Graph Driver for Docker [Experimental]

This feature is currently experimental, please do not use it in a production environment.

1. For older versions of Docker(Moby) lower than v24, please use Docker Nydus Graph Driver.