I intend to test a non-trivial Kubernetes setup as part of CI and wish to run the full system before CD. I cannot run --privileged containers and am running the docker container as a sibling to the host using docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
The basic docker setup seems to be working on the container:
linuxbrew@03091f71a10b:~$ docker run hello-world
Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.
However, minikube fails to start inside the docker container, reporting connection issues:
linuxbrew@03091f71a10b:~$ minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7
I1029 15:07:41.274378 2183 out.go:298] Setting OutFile to fd 1 ...
I1029 15:07:41.274538 2183 out.go:345] TERM=xterm,COLORTERM=, which probably does not support color
...
...
...
I1029 15:20:27.040213 197 main.go:130] libmachine: Using SSH client type: native
I1029 15:20:27.040541 197 main.go:130] libmachine: &{{{<nil> 0 [] [] []} docker [0x7a1e20] 0x7a4f00 <nil> [] 0s} 127.0.0.1 49350 <nil> <nil>}
I1029 15:20:27.040593 197 main.go:130] libmachine: About to run SSH command:
sudo hostname minikube && echo "minikube" | sudo tee /etc/hostname
I1029 15:20:27.040992 197 main.go:130] libmachine: Error dialing TCP: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:49350: connect: connection refused
This is despite the network being linked and the port being properly forwarded:
linuxbrew@51fbce78731e:~$ docker container ls
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
93c35cec7e6f gcr.io/k8s-minikube/kicbase:v0.0.27 "/usr/local/bin/entr…" 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes 127.0.0.1:49350->22/tcp, 127.0.0.1:49351->2376/tcp, 127.0.0.1:49348->5000/tcp, 127.0.0.1:49349->8443/tcp, 127.0.0.1:49347->32443/tcp minikube
51fbce78731e 7f7ba6fd30dd "/bin/bash" 8 minutes ago Up 8 minutes bpt-ci
linuxbrew@51fbce78731e:~$ docker network ls
NETWORK ID NAME DRIVER SCOPE
1e800987d562 bridge bridge local
aa6b2909aa87 host host local
d4db150f928b kind bridge local
a781cb9345f4 minikube bridge local
0a8c35a505fb none null local
linuxbrew@51fbce78731e:~$ docker network connect a781cb9345f4 93c35cec7e6f
Error response from daemon: endpoint with name minikube already exists in network minikube
The minikube container seems to be alive and well when trying to curl from the host and even sshis responding:
mastercook@linuxkitchen:~$ curl https://127.0.0.1:49350
curl: (35) OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to 127.0.0.1:49350
mastercook@linuxkitchen:~$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 -p 49350
The authenticity of host '[127.0.0.1]:49350 ([127.0.0.1]:49350)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:0E41lExrrezFK1QXULaGHgk9gMM7uCQpLbNPVQcR2Ec.
This key is not known by any other names
What am I missing and how can I make minikube properly discover the correctly working minikube container?
You can run minikube in docker in docker container. It will use docker driver.
docker run --name dind -d --privileged docker:20.10.17-dind
docker exec -it dind sh
/ # wget https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
/ # mv minikube-linux-amd64 minikube
/ # chmod +x minikube
/ # ./minikube start --force
...
* Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" cluster and "default" namespace by default
/ # ./minikube kubectl -- run --image=hello-world
/ # ./minikube kubectl -- logs pod/hello
Hello from Docker!
...
Also, note that --force is for running minikube using docker driver as root which we shouldn't do according minikube instructions.