nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/containers.nix

{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:

with lib;

let

  nixos-container = pkgs.substituteAll {
    name = "nixos-container";
    dir = "bin";
    isExecutable = true;
    src = ./nixos-container.pl;
    perl = "${pkgs.perl}/bin/perl -I${pkgs.perlPackages.FileSlurp}/lib/perl5/site_perl";
    su = "${pkgs.shadow.su}/bin/su";
    inherit (pkgs) utillinux;
  };

  # The container's init script, a small wrapper around the regular
  # NixOS stage-2 init script.
  containerInit = pkgs.writeScript "container-init"
    ''
      #! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} -e

      # Initialise the container side of the veth pair.
      if [ "$PRIVATE_NETWORK" = 1 ]; then
        ip link set host0 name eth0
        ip link set dev eth0 up
        if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS" ]; then
          ip route add $HOST_ADDRESS dev eth0
          ip route add default via $HOST_ADDRESS
        fi
        if [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" ]; then
          ip addr add $LOCAL_ADDRESS dev eth0
        fi
      fi

      # Start the regular stage 1 script, passing the bind-mounted
      # notification socket from the host to allow the container
      # systemd to signal readiness to the host systemd.
      NOTIFY_SOCKET=/var/lib/private/host-notify exec "$1"
    '';

  system = config.nixpkgs.system;

in

{
  options = {

    boot.isContainer = mkOption {
      type = types.bool;
      default = false;
      description = ''
        Whether this NixOS machine is a lightweight container running
        in another NixOS system.
      '';
    };

    boot.enableContainers = mkOption {
      type = types.bool;
      default = !config.boot.isContainer;
      description = ''
        Whether to enable support for nixos containers.
      '';
    };

    containers = mkOption {
      type = types.attrsOf (types.submodule (
        { config, options, name, ... }:
        {
          options = {

            config = mkOption {
              description = ''
                A specification of the desired configuration of this
                container, as a NixOS module.
              '';
            };

            path = mkOption {
              type = types.path;
              example = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/containers/webserver";
              description = ''
                As an alternative to specifying
                <option>config</option>, you can specify the path to
                the evaluated NixOS system configuration, typically a
                symlink to a system profile.
              '';
            };

            privateNetwork = mkOption {
              type = types.bool;
              default = false;
              description = ''
                Whether to give the container its own private virtual
                Ethernet interface.  The interface is called
                <literal>eth0</literal>, and is hooked up to the interface
                <literal>ve-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal>
                on the host.  If this option is not set, then the
                container shares the network interfaces of the host,
                and can bind to any port on any interface.
              '';
            };

            hostAddress = mkOption {
              type = types.nullOr types.string;
              default = null;
              example = "10.231.136.1";
              description = ''
                The IPv4 address assigned to the host interface.
              '';
            };

            localAddress = mkOption {
              type = types.nullOr types.string;
              default = null;
              example = "10.231.136.2";
              description = ''
                The IPv4 address assigned to <literal>eth0</literal>
                in the container.
              '';
            };

            autoStart = mkOption {
              type = types.bool;
              default = false;
              description = ''
                Wether the container is automatically started at boot-time.
              '';
            };
          };

          config = mkMerge
            [ (mkIf options.config.isDefined {
                path = (import ../../lib/eval-config.nix {
                  inherit system;
                  modules =
                    let extraConfig =
                      { boot.isContainer = true;
                        networking.hostName = mkDefault name;
                        networking.useDHCP = false;
                      };
                    in [ extraConfig config.config ];
                  prefix = [ "containers" name ];
                }).config.system.build.toplevel;
              })
            ];
        }));

      default = {};
      example = literalExample
        ''
          { webserver =
              { path = "/nix/var/nix/profiles/webserver";
              };
            database =
              { config =
                  { config, pkgs, ... }:
                  { services.postgresql.enable = true;
                    services.postgresql.package = pkgs.postgresql92;
                  };
              };
          }
        '';
      description = ''
        A set of NixOS system configurations to be run as lightweight
        containers.  Each container appears as a service
        <literal>container-<replaceable>name</replaceable></literal>
        on the host system, allowing it to be started and stopped via
        <command>systemctl</command> .
      '';
    };

  };


  config = mkIf (config.boot.enableContainers) {

    systemd.services."container@" =
      { description = "Container '%i'";

        unitConfig.RequiresMountsFor = [ "/var/lib/containers/%i" ];

        path = [ pkgs.iproute ];

        environment.INSTANCE = "%i";
        environment.root = "/var/lib/containers/%i";

        preStart =
          ''
            # Clean up existing machined registration and interfaces.
            machinectl terminate "$INSTANCE" 2> /dev/null || true

            if [ "$PRIVATE_NETWORK" = 1 ]; then
              ip link del dev "ve-$INSTANCE" 2> /dev/null || true
            fi


            if [ "$PRIVATE_NETWORK" = 1 ]; then
              ip link del dev "ve-$INSTANCE" 2> /dev/null || true
            fi
         '';

        script =
          ''
            mkdir -p -m 0755 "$root/etc" "$root/var/lib"
            mkdir -p -m 0700 "$root/var/lib/private" "$root/root" /run/containers
            if ! [ -e "$root/etc/os-release" ]; then
              touch "$root/etc/os-release"
            fi

            mkdir -p -m 0755 \
              "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-container/$INSTANCE" \
              "/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-container/$INSTANCE"

            cp --remove-destination /etc/resolv.conf "$root/etc/resolv.conf"

            if [ "$PRIVATE_NETWORK" = 1 ]; then
              extraFlags+=" --network-veth"
            fi

            for iface in $MACVLANS; do
              extraFlags+=" --network-macvlan=$iface"
            done

            # If the host is 64-bit and the container is 32-bit, add a
            # --personality flag.
            ${optionalString (config.nixpkgs.system == "x86_64-linux") ''
              if [ "$(< ''${SYSTEM_PATH:-/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-container/$INSTANCE/system}/system)" = i686-linux ]; then
                extraFlags+=" --personality=x86"
              fi
            ''}

            # Run systemd-nspawn without startup notification (we'll
            # wait for the container systemd to signal readiness).
            EXIT_ON_REBOOT=1 NOTIFY_SOCKET= \
            exec ${config.systemd.package}/bin/systemd-nspawn \
              --keep-unit \
              -M "$INSTANCE" -D "$root" $extraFlags \
              --bind-ro=/nix/store \
              --bind-ro=/nix/var/nix/db \
              --bind-ro=/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket \
              --bind=/run/systemd/notify:/var/lib/private/host-notify \
              --bind="/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-container/$INSTANCE:/nix/var/nix/profiles" \
              --bind="/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-container/$INSTANCE:/nix/var/nix/gcroots" \
              --setenv PRIVATE_NETWORK="$PRIVATE_NETWORK" \
              --setenv HOST_ADDRESS="$HOST_ADDRESS" \
              --setenv LOCAL_ADDRESS="$LOCAL_ADDRESS" \
              --setenv PATH="$PATH" \
              ${containerInit} "''${SYSTEM_PATH:-/nix/var/nix/profiles/system}/init"
          '';

        postStart =
          ''
            if [ "$PRIVATE_NETWORK" = 1 ]; then
              ifaceHost=ve-$INSTANCE
              ip link set dev $ifaceHost up
              if [ -n "$HOST_ADDRESS" ]; then
                ip addr add $HOST_ADDRESS dev $ifaceHost
              fi
              if [ -n "$LOCAL_ADDRESS" ]; then
                ip route add $LOCAL_ADDRESS dev $ifaceHost
              fi
            fi

            # Get the leader PID so that we can signal it in
            # preStop. We can't use machinectl there because D-Bus
            # might be shutting down. FIXME: in systemd 219 we can
            # just signal systemd-nspawn to do a clean shutdown.
            machinectl show "$INSTANCE" | sed 's/Leader=\(.*\)/\1/;t;d' > "/run/containers/$INSTANCE.pid"
          '';

        preStop =
          ''
            pid="$(cat /run/containers/$INSTANCE.pid)"
            if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
              kill -RTMIN+4 "$pid"
            fi
            rm -f "/run/containers/$INSTANCE.pid"
          '';

        restartIfChanged = false;
        #reloadIfChanged = true; # FIXME

        serviceConfig = {
          ExecReload = pkgs.writeScript "reload-container"
            ''
              #! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} -e
              ${nixos-container}/bin/nixos-container run "$INSTANCE" -- \
                bash --login -c "/nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration test"
            '';

          SyslogIdentifier = "container %i";

          EnvironmentFile = "-/etc/containers/%i.conf";

          Type = "notify";

          NotifyAccess = "all";

          # Note that on reboot, systemd-nspawn returns 133, so this
          # unit will be restarted. On poweroff, it returns 0, so the
          # unit won't be restarted.
          RestartForceExitStatus = "133";
          SuccessExitStatus = "133";

          Restart = "on-failure";

          # Hack: we don't want to kill systemd-nspawn, since we call
          # "machinectl poweroff" in preStop to shut down the
          # container cleanly. But systemd requires sending a signal
          # (at least if we want remaining processes to be killed
          # after the timeout). So send an ignored signal.
          KillMode = "mixed";
          KillSignal = "WINCH";
        };
      };

    # Generate a configuration file in /etc/containers for each
    # container so that container@.target can get the container
    # configuration.
    environment.etc = mapAttrs' (name: cfg: nameValuePair "containers/${name}.conf"
      { text =
          ''
            SYSTEM_PATH=${cfg.path}
            ${optionalString cfg.privateNetwork ''
              PRIVATE_NETWORK=1
              ${optionalString (cfg.hostAddress != null) ''
                HOST_ADDRESS=${cfg.hostAddress}
              ''}
              ${optionalString (cfg.localAddress != null) ''
                LOCAL_ADDRESS=${cfg.localAddress}
              ''}
            ''}
           ${optionalString cfg.autoStart ''
             AUTO_START=1
           ''}
          '';
      }) config.containers;

    # Generate /etc/hosts entries for the containers.
    networking.extraHosts = concatStrings (mapAttrsToList (name: cfg: optionalString (cfg.localAddress != null)
      ''
        ${cfg.localAddress} ${name}.containers
      '') config.containers);

    networking.dhcpcd.denyInterfaces = [ "ve-*" ];

    environment.systemPackages = [ nixos-container ];

    # Start containers at boot time.
    systemd.services.all-containers =
      { description = "All Containers";

        wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];

        unitConfig.ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty = "/etc/containers";

        serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";

        script =
          ''
            res=0
            shopt -s nullglob
            for i in /etc/containers/*.conf; do
              AUTO_START=
              source "$i"
              if [ "$AUTO_START" = 1 ]; then
                systemctl start "container@$(basename "$i" .conf).service" || res=1
              fi
            done
            exit $res
          ''; # */
      };

  };
}