Docker registry
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I am both excited about this and confused about where it is at. My endgame is using GitLab to manage containers, but I need to point it at a registry. Would this ultimately work? And is there a way to have auth go through gitlab for this?
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@atrilahiji it's currently working as a stand-alone registry via basic auth powered by htpasswd file. It'll also support Cloudron SSO shortly, after that I'll work on making it work with GitLab.
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@mario how's it going?
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@robi I have managed to integrate the registry with GitLab.
@girish where are we at with making proper MR for AuthProxy + making SSO optional? Then I can document GitLab integration, you can write some tests and off we go!
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@mario Fantastic news. So, all we need is docs to make it work with GitLab registry or does it need any packages changes to gitlab app or docker registry app ?
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@girish doesn't seem like it'll need package changes, documentation will be enough.
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I take that back, I did add some package changes. Had no time to test, but things seem to be working ok from the initial glimpse at it:
https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/docker-registry-app/-/merge_requests/1
Please test and report back @girish and others
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Might be useful to add auto deletion of old images:
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@robi GitLab does that for me
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@mario Just looking into this now.
Wondering, what is the best way forward. The app has no UI, but can have a login screen (via proxyAuth). So, when they login, they see a blank screen. Not ideal. Does it make sense to bundle any of the docker uis like https://github.com/Joxit/docker-registry-ui/ ? Seems quite easy to do. I can look into it.
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@girish depends on what the community needs. I'm more than happy to have a separate registry + other things as separate apps for those who need it.
If I needed to pick the best registry solution with UI and everything else that's well maintained and suitable for Cloudron, I'd probably look at Quay which supports LDAP auth.
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I am 100% in favor of bundling a simple UI together with the registry. Even if one does not need it and wants to use the gitlab UI, there's basically nothing to lose besides a few kB of storage ^^
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Yeah, Quay and Harbor are definitely the big players in this space. Very similar products - harbor is CNCF graduated and Quay is upstream for the corresponding Red Hat product. Either (or both) would be good UI adds.
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Last I checked harbor was impractical to package (as in way too much effort, it's really geared for the k8s crowd). Quay is a good option, but let me get this basic docker registry out first, I am almost there.
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@jimcavoli Quay afaik implements the protocol as well, so no need for registry separately.
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So strange, I am getting a "invalid checksum digest format" whenever I push now to this registry. Has anyone seen such an error before?
The push refers to repository [xxx.xxx.xxx/cloudron/base] fcdfeda3e242: Layer already exists 0ea3bde29271: Layer already exists d75ccb14b8b6: Layer already exists 74b4389a43ab: Layer already exists 5f38ae1e1a63: Layer already exists 3479c151673d: Layer already exists 7a307b866f25: Layer already exists ce3a66c20e17: Layer already exists 7197b970ebb9: Layer already exists 16542a8fc3be: Layer already exists 6597da2e2e52: Layer already exists 977183d4e999: Layer already exists c8be1b8f4d60: Layer already exists invalid checksum digest format -
@girish local filesystem?
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@mario Yes, with the local storage. I wonder if it's something to do with the proxy auth. I am trying it without auth now.
edit: indeed, something to do with the proxy auth. It works fine without proxy auth. Debugging.
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@girish Are you on 6.1 ? Maybe your 2FA implementation broke something with the basic auth ?
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@mehdi yeah, i had that in mind and tried with 6.0 as well. fails the same. I am pretty sure this worked when I tested it back then, so I must have broke something !
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@girish You can try with an app-password, or try another Basic Auth ProxyAuth app, like Transmission (with an android app or a browser extension)
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What I am seeing is that docker doesn't send any authorization header at all. The issue is very similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55516317/docker-login-not-passing-basic-authentication-headers-to-nginx . I can curl just fine.
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It seems that v2 registry auth does not use the basic bearer based authentication at all. https://docs.docker.com/registry/recipes/nginx/ is possibly obsolete, but I am trying to setup a registry from scratch now to double check.
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@girish it definitely can, that's how GitLab etc integration works.
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@girish Their doc indeed appears to be outdated. Different pages seem to indicate different things ...
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@mario thanks! i needed such a confident statement to help me keep looking further
I managed to get it to work. The issue is that proxyAuth on an auth fail redirects to the login page. But the docker registry wants it to return a 401 with a www-authenticate header. The header also causes issues with browsers since it starts popping up the login dialog.
In essence, even though the basic auth works, proxyAuth is not compatible. I thought about adding an flag to the manifest to have a different behavior but then again I don't like the current approach where we just install this registry and land on an empty page (any page even some static html with instructions would be better).
I ended up packaging it together the docker registry UI and a small LDAP server (from https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/cloudron-serve). I haven't pushed the changes since they are not working entirely. But it's what I am working on in parallel with getting 6.1 out.
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@girish said in Docker registry:
I ended up packaging it together the docker registry UI and a small LDAP server
That sounds intriguing. What role does the ldap server serve? Just for auth against the registry ui?
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@girish I think the best approach would be to do a bit of user-agent parsing magic... Yeah, it would be quite specific for this use-case, but
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@fbartels said in Docker registry:
That sounds intriguing. What role does the ldap server serve? Just for auth against the registry ui?
Yes, pretty much. It's just a proxy that redirects to login page and auths against LDAP. The code itself is very small, just ~100 lines or so.
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@mehdi Right, I considered UA string hack but I think dropping users in a blank page is a bit rough. So, my first step was to do the UA testing with nginx in the app itself. But, that brought the dreaded browser auth modal dialog which I really dislike. It's the main reason I ended up making proxyAuth in the first place
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@girish No, I mean, after testing you could keep the proxyAuth, but do a test on the proxyAuth that could show the page for browsers, and send the expected 401 for docker client. Then we could have the best of both worlds : integration with platform LDAP, a simple registry UI, and working CLI.
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@mehdi Ah, understood you better now. I am actually ok to add this hack in proxy auth code. We will still need some nginx/apache in the app code though to serve the registry UI (which is just static html).
Suddenly, I am tempted to abandon my node server because I am struggling to make this proxy middleware work. It seems to have some bug with PATCH requests which docker registry uses.
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I have published this app as unstable now. It also has an integrated UI. I have only very mildly tested it, so do not use it in production. I have created an app category for this, please report any issues there.
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@robi Thanks,
Quay is a Free alternative to DockerHub. Hopefully, Cloudron makes good use of it... ?
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@LoudLemur You can already use it by pointing your Cloudron to it.
