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Building Containers
Building Akri containers, whether locally or in the automated CI builds, leverages the same set of make commands.
In essence, Akri components can be thought of as:
1.Runtime components
1.Rust code: containers based on Rust code are built using Cargo cross and subsequent docker build commands include the cross-built binaries.
Note: For Rust code, build/Dockerfile.* does NOT run cargo build, instead they simply copy cross-built binaries into the container
2.Other code: these containers can be .NET or python or whatever else ... the build/Dockerfile.* must do whatever building is required.
2.Intermediate components: these containers are used as part of the build process and are not used in production explicitly
Runtime components
The Akri runtime components are the containers that provide Akri's functionality. They include the agent, the controller, the webhook, the brokers, and the applications. The majority of Akri runtime components are written in Rust, but there are several components that are written in .NET or python.
All of the runtime components are built with a make command. These are the supporting makefiles:
Makefile: this provides a single point of entry to build any Akri component
build/akri-containers.mk: this provides the build and push functionality for Akri containers
build/akri-rust-containers.mk: this provides a simple definition to build and push Akri components written in Rust
build/akri-dotnet-containers.mk: this provides a simple definition to build and push Akri components written in .NET
build/akri-python-containers.mk: this provides a simple definition to build and push Akri components written in Python
Configurability
The makefiles allow for several configurations:
BUILD_AMD64: if set not to 1, the make commands will ignore AMD64
BUILD_ARM32: if set not to 1, the make commands will ignore ARM32
BUILD_ARM64: if set not to 1, the make commands will ignore ARM64
REGISTRY: allows configuration of the container registry (defaults to imaginary: devcaptest.azurecr.io)
UNIQUE_ID: allows configuration of container registry account (defaults to $USER)
PREFIX: allows configuration of container registry path for containers
LABEL_PREFIX: allows configuration of container labels
CACHE_OPTION: when CACHE_OPTION=--no-cache, the docker build commands will not use local caches
Local development usage
For a local build, some typical patterns are:
make akri-build: run Rust cross-build for all platforms
BUILD_AMD64=0 BUILD_ARM32=0 BUILD_ARM64=1 make akri-build: run Rust cross-build for ARM64
PREFIX=ghcr.io/myaccount make akri: builds all of the Akri containers and stores them in a container registry, ghcr.io/myaccount.
PREFIX=ghcr.io/myaccount make akri: builds all of the Akri containers and stores them in a container registry, ghcr.io/myaccount.
PREFIX=ghcr.io/myaccount LABEL_PREFIX=local make akri: builds all of the Akri containers and stores them in a container registry, ghcr.io/myaccount with labels prefixed with local.
PREFIX=ghcr.io/myaccount BUILD_AMD64=1 BUILD_ARM32=0 BUILD_ARM64=0 make akri: builds all of the Akri containers for AMD64 and stores them in a container registry, ghcr.io/myaccount.
PREFIX=ghcr.io/myaccount make akri-controller: builds the Akri controller container for all platforms and stores them in a container registry, ghcr.io/myaccount.
make targets
For each component, there will be a common set of targets:
akri-<component>: this target will cross-build Akri and build+push this component's container for all platforms
akri-docker-<component>: this target will build+push this component's container for all platforms
<component>-build: this target will build this component's container for all platforms
<component>-build-amd64: this target will build this component's container for amd64
<component>-build-arm32: this target will build this component's container for arm32
<component>-build-arm64: this target will build this component's container for arm64
<component>-docker-per-arch: this target will push this component's container for all platforms
<component>-docker-per-arch-amd64: this target will push this component's container for amd64
<component>-docker-per-arch-arm32: this target will push this component's container for arm32
<component>-docker-per-arch-arm64: this target will push this component's container for arm64
<component>-docker-multi-arch-create: this target will create a multi-arch manifest for this component and include all platforms
<component>-docker-multi-arch-push: this target will push a multi-arch manifest for this component
Adding a new component
To add a new Rust-based component, follow these steps (substituting the new component name for <new-component>):
1.Add $(eval $(call add_rust_targets,<new-component>,<new-component>)) to build/akri-containers.mk
2.Create build/Dockerfile.<new-component>
A simple way to do this is to copy build/Dockerfile.agent and replace agent with whatever <new-component> is.
1.Create .github/workflows/build-<new-component>-container.yml A simple way to do this is to copy .github/workflows/build-agent-container.yml and replace agent with whatever <new-component> is.
Intermediate components
These are the intermediate components:
​rust-crossbuild​
​opencvsharp-build​
rust-crossbuild
This container is used by the Akri cross-build process. The main purpose of these containers is to provide Cargo cross with a Rust build environment that has all the required dependencies installed. This container can be built locally for all platforms using this command:
BUILD_AMD64=1 BUILD_ARM32=1 BUILD_AMD64=1 make rust-crossbuild
If a change needs to be made to this container, 2 pull requests are needed.
1.Create PR with desired rust-crossbuild changes (new dependencies, etc) AND update BUILD_RUST_CROSSBUILD_VERSION in build/intermediate-containers.mk. This PR is intended to create the new version of rust-crossbuild (not to use it).
2.After 1st PR is merged and the new version of rust-crossbuild is pushed to ghcr.io/akri, create PR with any changes that will leverage the new version of rust-crossbuild AND update Cross.toml (the BUILD_RUST_CROSSBUILD_VERSION value specified in step 1 should be each label's suffix). This PR is intended to use the new version of rust-crossbuild.
opencvsharp-build
This container is used by the onvif-video-broker as part of its build process. The main purpose of this container is to prevent each build from needing to build the OpenCV C# platform. This container can be built locally for all platforms using this command:
BUILD_AMD64=1 BUILD_ARM32=1 BUILD_AMD64=1 make opencv-base
If a change needs to be made to this container, 2 pull requests are needed.
1.Create PR with desired opencvsharp-build changes (new dependencies, etc) AND update BUILD_OPENCV_BASE_VERSION in build/intermediate-containers.mk. This PR is intended to create the new version of opencvsharp-build (not to use it).
2.After 1st PR is merged and the new version of opencvsharp-build is pushed to ghcr.io/akri, create PR with any changes that will leverage the new version of opencvsharp-build AND update USE_OPENCV_BASE_VERSION in build/akri-containers.mk. This PR is intended to use the new version of opencvsharp-build.
Automated builds usage
The automated CI builds essentially run these commands, where <component> is one of (controller|agent|udev|webhook-configuration|onvif|opcua-monitoring|anomaly-detection|streaming) and <platform> is one of (amd64|arm32|arm64):
# Install the Rust cross building tools
make install-cross
# Cross-builds Rust code for specified platform
make akri-cross-build-<platform>
# Cross-builds Rust code for specified component and platform
make <component>-build-<platform>
# Create container for specified component and platform using versioned label
LABEL_PREFIX="v$(cat version.txt)-dev" make <component>-build-<platform>
# Create container for specified component and platform using latest label
LABEL_PREFIX=`latest-dev` make <component>-build-<platform>
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PREFIX=`ghcr.io/project-akri`
# Push container for specified component and platform with versioned label to container registry
LABEL_PREFIX="v$(cat version.txt)-dev" make <component>-docker-per-arch-<platform>
# Push container for specified component and platform with latest label to container registry
LABEL_PREFIX=`latest-dev` make <component>-docker-per-arch-<platform>
​
DOCKER_CLI_EXPERIMENTAL=`enabled`
PREFIX=`ghcr.io/project-akri`
# Create manifest for multi-arch versioned container
LABEL_PREFIX="v$(cat version.txt)-dev" make <component>-docker-multi-arch-create
# Push manifest for multi-arch versioned container
LABEL_PREFIX="v$(cat version.txt)-dev" make <component>-docker-multi-arch-push
# Create manifest for multi-arch latest container
LABEL_PREFIX=`latest-dev` make <component>-docker-multi-arch-create
# Push manifest for multi-arch latest container
LABEL_PREFIX=`latest-dev` make <component>-docker-multi-arch-push
Build and run Akri without a Container Registry
For development and/or testing, it can be convenient to run Akri without a Container Registry. For example, the Akri CI tests that validate pull requests build Akri components locally, store the containers only in local docker, and configure Helm to only use the local docker containers.
There are two steps to this. For the sake of this demonstration, only the amd64 version of the agent and controller will be built, but this method can be extended to any and all components:
1.Build:
    # Only build AMD64
    BUILD_AMD64=1
    # PREFIX can be anything, as long as it matches what is specified in the Helm command
    PREFIX=no-container-registry
    # LABEL_PREFIX can be anything, as long as it matches what is specified in the Helm command
    LABEL_PREFIX=dev
    # Build the Rust code
    make akri-build
    # Build the controller container locally for amd64
    make controller-build-amd64
    # Build the agent container locally for amd64
    make agent-build-amd64
1.Runtime
 # Specify pullPolicy as Never
 # Specify repository as $PREFIX/<component>
 # Specify tag as $LABEL_PREFIX-amd64
 helm install akri ./deployment/helm \
     $AKRI_HELM_CRICTL_CONFIGURATION \
     --set agent.image.pullPolicy=Never \
     --set agent.image.repository="$PREFIX/agent" \
     --set agent.image.tag="$LABEL_PREFIX-amd64" \
     --set controller.image.pullPolicy=Never \
     --set controller.image.repository="$PREFIX/controller" \
     --set controller.image.tag="$LABEL_PREFIX-amd64"
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Outline
Runtime components
Configurability
Local development usage
make targets
Adding a new component
Intermediate components
rust-crossbuild
opencvsharp-build
Automated builds usage
Build and run Akri without a Container Registry