Installing Intel® Clear Containers 3.X on SLES* version 12 SP1

December 13, 2017 · View on GitHub

This document only covers installing on a SLES 12 SP1 system. You can use this guide with more recent Service Packs, but the procedures have not been tested.

Note:

If you are installing Clear Containers 3.X on a system that already has
Clear Containers 2.X installed, first read the upgrading document.

Required setup

You are required to run the sudo command without specifying a password to set up the Clear Containers 3.X installation. Verify this requirement with the following commands:

$ su -
# echo "$some_user ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | (EDITOR="tee -a" visudo)
$ exit

The following steps show you how to install Clear Containers 3.X

  1. Ensure the system packages are up-to-date:
$ sudo -E zypper update
  1. Install Git:
$ sudo -E zypper -n install git
  1. Create the installation directory and clone the repository:
$ mkdir -p $HOME/go/src/github/clearcontainers
$ cd $HOME/go/src/github/clearcontainers
$ git clone https://github.com/clearcontainers/runtime
$ cd runtime
  1. Run the installation script:
$ script -efc ./installation/sles-setup.sh

Note:

  • The installation script might take a long time to run because it must download and compile source packages.

  • It is not strictly necessary to run the installation script using the script(1) command, but using this command writes a log of the installation to the file typescript. This is useful for administrators to see the changes made and for use when debugging issues.

The following steps show how to verify the Clear Containers 3.X installation is successful:

  1. Check the cc-runtime version:
$ cc-runtime --version
  1. Test that a Clear Container can be created:
$ sudo -E docker run -ti busybox sh