No vendor packages available for buildkit installation

[afbjorklund]

Unfortunately there are no packages available for "buildkit" yet, only for containerd.

This makes a lot more cumbersome to install and maintain it, using only the tarballs.

Compare:

# install docker
RUN sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal stable' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list" && \
    curl -L https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o docker.key && \
    apt-key add - < docker.key && \
    clean-install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

With:

ARG BUILDKIT_VERSION="v0.8.1"

# install buildkit
RUN export ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture | sed 's/ppc64el/ppc64le/' | sed 's/armhf/arm-v7/') \
 && echo "Installing buildkit ..." \
    && export BUILDKIT_BASE_URL="https://github.com/moby/buildkit/releases/download/${BUILDKIT_VERSION}" \
    && curl -sSL --retry 5 --output /tmp/buildkit.tgz "${BUILDKIT_BASE_URL}/buildkit-${BUILDKIT_VERSION}.linux-${ARCH}.tar.gz" \
    && tar -C /usr/local -xzvf /tmp/buildkit.tgz \
    && rm -rf /tmp/buildkit.tgz \
    && chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/buildctl \
    && chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/buildkit-runc \
    && chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/buildkitd

See moby/buildkit#1794

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It would be even better if upstream provided individual deb packages, but beggars can't be choosers...

docker-ce

• /usr/bin/dockerd

docker-ce-cli

• /usr/bin/docker

containerd.io

• /usr/bin/containerd
• /usr/bin/ctr
• /usr/bin/runc

buildkit

• /usr/bin/buildkitd
• /usr/bin/buildctl
• /usr/bin/buildkit-runc

Another general problem with the vendor packages (unlike the system packages) is the lack of source code.

docker.io
containerd
runc
buildkit

But this goes for the other vendor packages, too.

$ apt-get source containerd.io
Reading package lists... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for containerd.io

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[afbjorklund]

This got even worse with the systemd units, even more files to download and manually install...

https://github.com/moby/buildkit/tree/master/examples/systemd

Some input for #11327, that wants to go back to more primitive packaging also for containerd/docker ?

The tarballs are only slightly better than downloading "raw" binaries

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[afbjorklund]

This is to be expected (long-term), there are no upstream packages for containerd either.