mcameron/mobydig

Image to run Sysdig on Docker for mac

mobydig

Image to run Sysdig on Docker for mac (but not only, it should work on a docker engine on a linux host) #Why ? Why a particular image for Docker for mac ? Sysdig provides a Docker image to run sysdig/csysdig on Docker but on a Linux host. As the sources os Docker for mac are not yet avaliable, there is no easy way to use the DKMS build capability of the upstream image. Finally, I could not just publish an image to the Docker Hub as kernel are upgraded often on Docker for mac.

Why that name ? Because some difficulties to reach my target comes from the fact that Docker for mac named the kernel linux-4.4.x-moby. And that particular name had me to search for a few trick on compiling kernel libs, so it's gonna be like a souvenir every time I get back to this project.

Get it, build it

# git clone https://github.com/fdebonneval/mobydig.git
# cd mobydig
# make build

Build time is around 15 minutes with a decend internet access and my i5 MBP. After the build, the image is published in your local registry with the name mobydig:(sysdig verion) You can choose the tag/branch you want to build against by changing the VERSION variable in the Makefile

And run it

To run csysdig, the great htop like ncurses tool, just use

# make csysdig

To run sysdig, use

# make sysdig

Todo

• Reduce image size. I gave a try to Alpine, but it seem there is an issue around Libc
• Fix mouse inputs in spectro view
• Write some examples

References

• Thanks to @etown for his work on module build that inspired me a lot
  • https://github.com/etown/install-sysdig-module
• Thanks to Sysdig team (@draios), thanks to the official image I found a few env that made the stuff work
  • http://www.sysdig.org/wiki/how-to-install-sysdig-from-the-source-code/
  • http://www.sysdig.org/wiki/how-to-install-sysdig-for-linux/
  • https://github.com/draios/sysdig/tree/dev/docker
• Thanks to a very shy collegue of mine for his help on the rest