Oci Add Hooks

oci-add-hooks is an OCI runtime with the sole purpose of injecting OCI prestart, poststart, and poststop hooks into a container config.json before passing along to an OCI compatable runtime.

Usage

This runtime can be invoked by doing

oci-add-hooks \
	--hook-config-path </path/to/hook/config>
	--runtime-path </path/to/oci/runtime> \
	…\
	[--bundle <path/to/bundle> \]
	…

• hook-config-path is a json file that follows the format described here.
• runtime-path is a path to an OCI runtime binary.
• bundle,if present, specifies the path to the bundle directory.

With Docker

A few things need to be done to use oci-add-hooks with Docker. First modify /etc/docker/daemon.json to includ a "runtimes" section similiar to the following:

{
  "runtimes": {
    "oci-add-hook": {
      "path": "oci-add-hooks",
      "runtimeArgs": ["--hook-config-path",
	"/path/to/config.json",
	"--runtime-path",
	"<path/to/oci/runtime>"]
    }
  }
}

note: path here should either include this binaries name when it's on the path or the full path/name if it's not.

If we had a hypothetical hook config located at /home/user/hook-config.json

{
  "hooks": {
    "prestart": [
      {
        "path": "path/to/prestart/hook",
        "args": ["hook", "some", "args", "here"]
      }
    ]
  }
}

and we wanted to launch containers with runc our /etc/docker/daemon.json would look like:

{
  "runtimes": {
    "oci-add-hooks": {
      "path": "oci-add-hooks",
      "runtimeArgs": ["--hook-config-path",
	"/home/user/hook-config.json",
	"--runtime-path",
	"runc"]
    }
  }
}

This is assuming that both oci-add-hooks and runc are in the path. You can restart Docker to trigger a reload of this config file. You should be able to verify it has this runtime by doing docker info and seeing something like:

…
Runtimes: oci-add-hooks runc
…

Once this is setup you can use this runtime (and the configured hooks) by doing a docker run command and adding the --runtime=oci-add-hooks flag. docker run --rm --runtime=oci-add-hooks <image>

What is it doing

When invoked as above, oci-add-hooks will parse the file specified by hook-config-path as specified in the runtime-spec section on POSIX-platform hooks. It will merge these hooks into the config.json file located at the path passed to bundle, writing the changes back to disk. If hooks are already present in the spec, it will pre-pend these hooks to the existing ones. It will then strip out the options and args that are specific to oci-add-hooks and passthrough to the binary pointed at by runtime-path.

License

This library is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.