Installation and Deployment

• Installation and Deployment
  • Installation Methods
    • Prerequisites
    • Installation Procedure
  • Deployment Configuration
    • Configuring the Docker Engine
    • iSulad Configuration
    • Configuration.toml

Installation Methods

Prerequisites

• The root permission is required for installing a Kata container.
• For better performance experience, a Kata container needs to run on the bare metal server and cannot run on VMs.
• A Kata container depends on the following components (openEuler 1.0 version). Ensure that the required components have been installed in the environment. To install iSulad, refer to Installation Configuration.
  • docker-engine
  • qemu

Installation Procedure

Released Kata container components are integrated in the kata-containers-version.rpm package. You can run the rpm command to install the corresponding software.

rpm -ivh kata-containers-<version>.rpm

Deployment Configuration

Configuring the Docker Engine

To enable the Docker engine to support kata-runtime, perform the following steps to configure the Docker engine:

1. Ensure that all software packages (docker-engine and kata-containers) have been installed in the environment.

2. Stop the Docker engine.

   systemctl stop docker
   

3. Modify the configuration file /etc/docker/daemon.json of the Docker engine and add the following configuration:

   {
     "runtimes": {
       "kata-runtime": {
         "path": "/usr/bin/kata-runtime",
         "runtimeArgs": [
             "--kata-config",
             "/usr/share/defaults/kata-containers/configuration.toml"
           ]
       }
     }
   }
   

4. Restart the Docker engine.

   systemctl start docker
   

iSulad Configuration

To enable the iSulad to support the new container runtime kata-runtime, perform the following steps which are similar to those for the container engine docker-engine:

1. Ensure that all software packages (iSulad and kata-containers) have been installed in the environment.

2. Stop iSulad.

   systemctl stop isulad
   

3. Modify the /etc/isulad/daemon.json configuration file of the iSulad and add the following configurations:

   {
     "runtimes": {
       "kata-runtime": {
         "path": "/usr/bin/kata-runtime",
         "runtime-args": [
             "--kata-config",
             "/usr/share/defaults/kata-containers/configuration.toml"
           ]
       }
     }
   }
   

4. Restart iSulad.

   systemctl start isulad
   

Configuration.toml

The Kata container provides a global configuration file configuration.toml. Users can also customize the path and configuration options of the Kata container configuration file.

In the runtimeArges field of Docker engine, you can use --kata-config to specify a private file. The default configuration file path is /usr/share/defaults/kata-containers/configuration.toml.

The following lists the common fields in the configuration file. For details about the configuration file options, see configuration.toml.

1. hypervisor.qemu

   • path: specifies the execution path of the virtualization QEMU.
   • kernel: specifies the execution path of the guest kernel.
   • initrd: specifies the guest initrd execution path.
   • machine_type: specifies the type of the analog chip. The value is virt for the ARM architecture and pc for the x86 architecture.
   • kernel_params: specifies the running parameters of the guest kernel.

2. proxy.kata

   • path: specifies the kata-proxy running path.
   • enable_debug: enables the debugging function for the kata-proxy process.

3. agent.kata

   • enable_blk_mount: enables guest mounting of the block device.
   • enable_debug: enables the debugging function for the kata-agent process.

4. runtime

   • enable_cpu_memory_hotplug: enables CPU and memory hot swap.
   • enable_debug: enables debugging for the kata-runtime process.