Docker Nydus Graph Driver

⚠️ Temporarily Deprecated, Do Not Use In Production

Docker supports remote graph driver as a plugin. With the nydus graph driver, you can start a container from previously converted nydus image. The initial intent to build the graph driver is to provide a way to help users quickly experience the speed starting a container from nydus image. So it is not ready for productive usage. If you think docker is important in your use case, a PR is welcomed to listen to your story. We might enhance this in the future.

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Architecture

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Procedures

1 Configure Nydus

Put your nydus configuration into path /var/lib/nydus/config.json, where nydus remote backend is also specified.

2 Install Graph Driver Plugin

Install from DockerHub

$ docker plugin install gechangwei/docker-nydus-graphdriver:0.2.0

3 Enable the Graph Driver

Before facilitating nydus graph driver to start container, the plugin must be enabled.

$ sudo docker plugin enable gechangwei/docker-nydus-graphdriver:0.2.0

4 Switch to Docker Graph Driver

By default, docker manages all images by build-in overlay graph driver which can be switched to another like nydus graph driver by specifying a new one in its daemon configuration file.

{
    "experimental": true,
    "storage-driver": "gechangwei/docker-nydus-graphdriver:0.2.0"
}

5 Restart Docker Service

$ sudo systemctl restart docker

Verification

Execute docker info to verify above steps were all done and nydus graph driver works normally.

Start Container

Now, just run container or pull image like what you are used to

Limitation

1. docker's version >=20.10.2. Lower version probably works well, but it is not tested yet
2. When converting images through nydusify, backend must be specified as oss.
3. Nydus graph driver is not compatible with classic oci images. So you have to switch back to build-in graphdriver to use those images.