Focker

Introduction

Focker is a FreeBSD image orchestration tool in the vein of Docker.

Installation

In order to use Focker you need a ZFS pool available in your FreeBSD installation.

Installing the Python package

Run:

git clone https://github.com/sadaszewski/focker.git
cd focker/
python setup.py install

or (if you want an uninstaller):

git clone https://github.com/sadaszewski/focker.git
cd focker/
python setup.py sdist
pip install dist/focker-0.9.tgz

Setting up ZFS

Upon first execution of the focker command, Focker will automatically create the necessary directories and ZFS datasets. You just need to exclude the unlikely case that you are already using /focker in your filesystem hierarchy. The layout after initialization will look the following:

/focker
/focker/images
/focker/jails
/focker/volumes

images, jails, and volumes have corresponding ZFS datasets with canmount=off so that they serve as mountpoint anchors for child entries.

Preparing base image

To bootstrap the images system you need to install FreeBSD in jail mode to a ZFS dataset placed in /focker/images and provide two user-defined properties - focker:sha256 and focker:tags. One way to achieve this would be the following:

TAGS="freebsd-latest freebsd-$(freebsd-version | cut -d'-' -f1)"
VERSION="FreeBSD $(freebsd-version)"
SHA256=$(echo -n ${VERSION} | sha256)
NAME=${SHA256:0:7}
zfs create -o focker:sha256=${SHA256} -o focker:tags="${TAGS}" zroot/focker/images/${NAME}
bsdinstall jail /focker/images/${NAME}
zfs set readonly=on zroot/focker/images/${NAME}
zfs snapshot zroot/focker/images/${NAME}@1