Dry-run, download-only, notifiy-only modes for podman auto-update

[jpf91]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (leave only one on its own line)

/kind feature

Description

It'd be great to have much more configuration options for podman auto-update: I have quite some services which I don't want updated automatically. These are things such as IPA client containers which perform a join to the IPA directory which should not happen unattended (can easily break depending on DNS and network state). Because of this, I have systemd services which should not be restarted if an update is available. I also have services which could be restarted but wouldn't apply the new configuration anyway, as they start persistent containers. To summarize, it'd be great to have these operation modes:

• Only check if updates are available. Print a list of affected container names. Provide some way to react to this, so that users can send this information via email.
• Check for updates and pull, but do not restart containers
• Check for updates, pull and restart containers

in general, it'd be great to have some more verbose output from auto-update. (Even if it's just for testing whether the labels have been set properly).

I've programmed a small hack to do / demonstrate all this:

#!/bin/bash

IGNORE_LABEL=1
VERBOSE=1
DOWNLOAD=0
SEND_UPDATE_MAIL=0

if [ -f /etc/podman-download-updates.conf ]; then
    source /etc/podman-download-updates.conf
fi 

CONTAINERS=$(podman ps --format {{.ID}})
DOWNLOAD_IMAGES=()
CONTAINER_UPDATES=()

echo "Scanning running containers:"
for CID in $CONTAINERS; do
    IMAGE=$(podman inspect $CID --format {{.ImageName}})
    IMAGE_ID=$(podman inspect $CID --format {{.ImageID}})
    NAME=$(podman inspect $CID --format {{.Name}})
    LABELS=$(podman inspect $CID --format {{.Config.Labels}})

    echo $LABELS | grep -q "io.containers.autoupdate:image"
    IS_ENABLED=$?

    if [[ $IS_ENABLED -eq 0 || IGNORE_LABEL -eq 1 ]]; then
        test $VERBOSE -eq 1 && echo "* $NAME($CID) checking for updates"

        TIME_REG=$(skopeo inspect docker://$IMAGE 2> /dev/null | jq '.Created')
        TIME_LOCAL=$(skopeo inspect containers-storage:$IMAGE 2> /dev/null | jq '.Created')
        TIME_CONTAINER=$(skopeo inspect containers-storage:$IMAGE_ID 2> /dev/null | jq '.Created')

        if [ "$TIME_LOCAL" != "$TIME_REG" ]; then
            DOWNLOAD_IMAGES=(${DOWNLOAD_IMAGES[@]} $IMAGE)
        fi
        if [ "$TIME_CONTAINER" != "$TIME_REG" ]; then
            CONTAINER_UPDATES=(${CONTAINER_UPDATES[@]} $NAME)
        fi
    elif [ $VERBOSE -eq 1 ]; then
        echo "# $NAME($CID) auto-updates not enabled"
    fi
done

if [[ $DOWNLOAD -eq 1 && ${#DOWNLOAD_IMAGES[@]} -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo ""
    echo ""
    echo "Downloading new images:"
    for IMAGE in "${DOWNLOAD_IMAGES[@]}"
    do
        echo "* $IMAGE"
        podman pull $IMAGE
    done
fi

if [[ ${#CONTAINER_UPDATES[@]} -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo ""
    echo ""
    echo "The following containers can be updated:"
    for CONTAINER in "${CONTAINER_UPDATES[@]}"
    do
        echo "* $CONTAINER"
    done
fi

if [[ $SEND_UPDATE_MAIL -eq 1 ]]; then
    /etc/systemd-email.sh "Container Updater" podman-update.service
fi

This provides (verbose) output similar to this and allows sending it via email:

Scanning running containers:
* test-fedora(557a24bd6552) checking for updates
* fs-maintenance(a6d7a2dc89fd) checking for updates
* samba-server(c28e852d7f14) checking for updates
* ssh-fileserver(1c824402f0a4) checking for updates
* freeipa(991f0963cd34) checking for updates
* registry(72759de3dc2b) checking for updates
* acme(e0371cf959f7) checking for updates
* minidlna(6c3fef68d33b) checking for updates
* droneci-runner(5ac00170e988) checking for updates
* droneci(4020901edb6b) checking for updates
* nginx(ac05f1df94a1) checking for updates
* gitea(fa5e9d0c2788) checking for updates
* tvheadend(6d915652eb7c) checking for updates
* mariadb(02af78367ca7) checking for updates
* cockpit-ws(da51dbc9a63e) checking for updates
* ipa-client-nas(094163fd59b5) checking for updates

The following containers can be updated:
* fs-maintenance
* samba-server
* freeipa
* mariadb
* ipa-client-nas

BTW: My planned strategy for updates is systemctl stop container && podman rename container container.bak && systemctl start container where the systemd unit looks like those described here: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/9948 It would be great if auto-update could integrate well into this workflow.

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[rhatdan]

It would probably be better for you to open PR's then issues...

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[rhatdan]

@vrothberg WDYT?

[vrothberg]

Yes, I am in favor of doing that. There is a number of things I want to work on for auto updates. Once we leave bug scrubbing, I'd love to spend some time on it.

Another thing I want to do is get a REST endpoint, such that auto updates can be triggered remotely.

[vrothberg]

Note: I started spending time on it.