Last week we were at Flock 2016 which was held in Krakow, Poland. Awesome event, lots of news, great people, plenty of conversations and fun.

Here is a list of my notes:

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So you wanna build a docker image. And you need to fetch your application sources from git. Which is guarded by ssh. And you don’t want the ssh key to get leaked into the final image. Bummer.

Unless…

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So we needed to fetch manifests of repositories from Docker Hub today. It’s not that hard. 30 lines of python can do it. But at the same time, you need to read docs with all the specs.

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Today was a fun day. We were working on a piece of code which interacts with PostgreSQL database. One function was reading from database and based on the query result it inserted some data afterwards. The thing is that it wasn’t done in a transaction so I suspected there could be a race condition. But how to test such case? My requirements for such test were obvious: I wanna spam the server with streams of requests and check logs if the server is able to handle it.

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So I wanted to setup automatic mounting (read as autofs) with systemd, without using fstab.

Unfortunately, the man page didn’t have any examples so it wasn’t that easy to figure out. Luckily there is an excellent guide at RHCSA course [1].

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So I got asked about this topic after my DevConf 2016 talk: there is a solution available on internets which describes how one can use two dockerfiles to build an image. Whole article can be found here.

What I didn’t like about the solution is that the first image outputs whole build artifact as a tarball to standard output. To me that’s a bit hacky. Since docker 1.8 you can cp files and directories between containers and host. Let’s try to do that!

All of this is because of build secrets. It may happen that you need to authenticate with an external service when building a docker image. In order to do that, you need to have a secret available during build. That’s a problem. This key may leak into a final image (whether via docker history or will be available directly in some layer).

Here’s a solution!

Split your build process into two steps, each step represents its own dockerfile.

1. Authenticate with external service in order to fetch sources (use private SSH key to authenticate with GitHub so you can clone a repo) and build the project.

2. Get build artifacts from step 1 and install them.

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After my yesterday talk at DevConf 2016 I got asked about some tips and tricks how to write Dockerfiles. I know we have plenty of resources for that in Red Hat, Fedora and Project Atomic. So, here we go!

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