[CRIU] Do anyone knows how to migrate a container with web app

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at virtuozzo.com
Wed May 4 08:20:18 PDT 2016


On 05/03/2016 08:00 PM, Weicheng SUN wrote:
> Thanks a lot! I try that way, it actually can complete the restore progress! 
> However, without doing bind(), the container's exposed port doesn't work.
> I will keep on finding a way to solve it, do you have some idea? 

You can try to modify ciru images with crit and substitute old address with
new one.

https://criu.org/CRIT

> Regards,
> 
> David Sun 孙炜程
> School of Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University
> 
> Mobile:  15921638078
> 
> E-mail:  SunWeicheng0001 at gmail.com <mailto:SunWeicheng0001 at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 2016-05-04 0:25 GMT+08:00 Ross Boucher <rboucher at gmail.com <mailto:rboucher at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     I have not provided the modified CRIU in that release. This is a very hacky way to simply drop sockets you can try: https://github.com/boucher/criu/commit/0539fbc68228903ad4a2cae2b3737c6e888ab93d
> 
> 
>     On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:19 PM Weicheng SUN <sunweicheng0001 at gmail.com <mailto:sunweicheng0001 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Thankfully, You understand what I mean. I know that I should request a same IP address and the CRIU I use is the release you give in cr-combined(I guess this is the modified CRIU you mentioned).
>         The problem is I do not know how to request a container with specific IP address via docker command or RESTful API. I know there is docker run --ip for later than docker v1.10, but the latest release of cr-combined doesn't support this flag.
>         I tried to modified the source code of docker v1.10, but it always hangs on without any response while running, :(. 
>         Do you know how to request such a container with the release version you give?
> 
>         Regards,
> 
>         David Sun 孙炜程
>         School of Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University
> 
>         Mobile:  15921638078
> 
>         E-mail:  SunWeicheng0001 at gmail.com <mailto:SunWeicheng0001 at gmail.com>
> 
> 
>         2016-05-04 0:09 GMT+08:00 Ross Boucher <rboucher at gmail.com <mailto:rboucher at gmail.com>>:
> 
>             What we've done is modified the CRIU source to simply drop these unrestorable connections, rather than error out. Perhaps that could be turned into an option.
> 
>             On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:08 PM Ross Boucher <rboucher at gmail.com <mailto:rboucher at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>                 You should be able to request the same IP when creating the new docker container. Similarly, you could do the same for any linked containers. 
> 
>                 On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:07 PM Weicheng SUN <sunweicheng0001 at gmail.com <mailto:sunweicheng0001 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>                     I know what you mean. But I just want to migrate some containers to another host, all of those application can deal tcp reconnection.
>                     You say if there are some packets cannot deliver into new container's location, the restore will broken.
>                     So, If there is*a method to skip this progress, just to bind the old ip address to the container on the new host.*
>                     Everytime I checkpoint a container with tcp connection, scp to another host, then restore, the restore log always say that
> 
>                     (00.294516)      1: Found id pipe:[6392267] (fd 1) in inherit fd list
>                     (00.294520)      1: File pipe:[6392267] will be restored from fd 3 dumped from inherit fd 1
>                     (00.294535)      1: Found fd 1 (id pipe:[6392267]) in inherit fd list (caller inherit_fd_resolve_clash)
>                     (00.294538)      1: Inherit fd 1 moved to 3 to resolve clash
>                     (00.294541)      1:             Create fd for 1
>                     (00.294544)      1:     Restoring fd 2 (state -> create)
>                     (00.294545)      1:             Creating pipe pipe_id=0x6189cc id=0x3
>                     (00.294547)      1: Found id pipe:[6392268] (fd 2) in inherit fd list
>                     (00.294548)      1: File pipe:[6392268] will be restored from fd 4 dumped from inherit fd 2
>                     (00.294554)      1: Found fd 2 (id pipe:[6392268]) in inherit fd list (caller inherit_fd_resolve_clash)
>                     (00.294555)      1: Inherit fd 2 moved to 4 to resolve clash
>                     (00.294558)      1:             Create fd for 2
>                     (00.294560)      1:     Restoring fd 4 (state -> create)
>                     (00.294569)      1:     Restore: family 10 type 1 proto 6 port 6379 state 10 src_addr ::
>                     (00.294592)      1: 5 restore sndbuf 16384 rcv buf 87380
>                     (00.294595)      1:     restore priority 0 for socket
>                     (00.294596)      1:     restore rcvlowat 1 for socket
>                     (00.294598)      1:     restore mark 0 for socket
>                     (00.294611)      1: Found fd 4 (id pipe:[6392268]) in inherit fd list (caller inherit_fd_resolve_clash)
>                     (00.294616)      1: Inherit fd 4 moved to 6 to resolve clash
>                     (00.294619)      1:             Create fd for 4
>                     (00.294622)      1:     Restoring fd 5 (state -> create)
>                     (00.294625)      1:     Restore: family 2 type 1 proto 6 port 6379 state 10 src_addr 0.0.0.0
>                     (00.294633)      1: 5 restore sndbuf 16384 rcv buf 87380
>                     (00.294635)      1:     restore priority 0 for socket
>                     (00.294636)      1:     restore rcvlowat 1 for socket
>                     (00.294638)      1:     restore mark 0 for socket
>                     (00.294640)      1:             Create fd for 5
>                     (00.294642)      1:     Restoring fd 6 (state -> create)
>                     (00.294644)      1:     Restore: family 2 type 1 proto 6 port 6379 state 1 src_addr 172.17.128.2
>                     (00.294646)      1: Restoring TCP connection
>                     (00.294649)      1: Restoring TCP connection id 7 ino 619526
>                     (00.294657)      1:     Setting 1 queue seq to 2786935679 <tel:2786935679>
>                     (00.294659)      1:     Setting 2 queue seq to 919486667
>                     (00.294679)      1: Error (sk-inet.c:721): Can't bind inet socket (id 7): Cannot assign requested address
> 
>                     You see, 172.17.128.2 is the old ip, criu tried to bind this ip to new container, but failed.
> 
>                     Regards,
> 
>                     David Sun 孙炜程
>                     School of Software Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University
> 
>                     Mobile:  15921638078
> 
>                     E-mail:  SunWeicheng0001 at gmail.com <mailto:SunWeicheng0001 at gmail.com>
> 
> 
>                     2016-04-28 18:33 GMT+08:00 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at virtuozzo.com <mailto:xemul at virtuozzo.com>>:
> 
>                         On 04/28/2016 08:01 AM, Weicheng SUN wrote:
>                         > Hi Everyone,
>                         >
>                         > The latest release of cr-combined said that it supports network. Then I do some experiments. I use
>                         > 1. docker run -d -v demo:/data --name=redis redis:latest
>                         > 2. docker run -d -e USE_REDIS_HOST=redis --link redis:redis -p 80:80 --name=app binocarlos/moby-counter:latest
>                         > which is a demo of simple website and redis is its storage. I first run them on host A
>                         >
>                         > I try to checkpoint them and copy to another host(host B). I create two containers with same configuration
>                         > of them and applied the change of file system to the new created container. Then I tried to restore them,
>                         > which sometimes came out a wrong result.
>                         > I notice that when redis and app have same ip address on host A and B, then the restore will success. But,
>                         > when they have different IP on two hosts, the restore progress will certainly broken.
>                         >
>                         > The reason I guess is that the state of tcp connection in checkpoint image didn't match the new environment
>                         > in host B. For example, redis in host A is 17.172.20.1 and app in host A is 17.172.20.2, then for app there
>                         > is a connection whose remote host is 17.172.20.1. Then come to host B, if redis in host B is 17.172.20.3 and
>                         > when I try to restore app, criu will confuse where is 17.172.20.1(redis)?
> 
>                         After migration all the sockets get restored with the IP addresses they had on source node,
>                         so if for some reason packets to former container IP cannot be delivered into container's
>                         new location, the container would get broken. This is unavoidable limitation of TCP protocol
>                         itself. There can be workarounds to this (DNAT-like for example), but this is out of CRIU's
>                         scope and should be done on Docker level.
> 
>                         > Generally, is there always a problem to checkpoint and restore a container, who has a link with other
>                         > containers, on the another host?
>                         >
>                         > And who knows that how to use a specific IP address while start a new container? For the latest release of
>                         > cr-combined doesn't support docker run --ip. Even --ip is supported, it requires a user defined network,
>                         > default network is not supported.
>                         >
>                         > Hopes for your kindly response & wish all of you a great day!
>                         >
>                         > Regards,
>                         >
>                         > David Sun
>                         >
>                         >
>                         >
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