Run bird from a container

[Hugo Slabbert]

If you're looking for vanilla BIRD, I'd package something myself, rather,
or https://hub.docker.com/r/pierky/bird/ if you want something
pre-packaged. The repo for that calico/bird image explicitly calls out:

> This is a fork of the BIRD internet routing daemon which provides the
following additional function used by Calico:
> * Support for routing using IP-in-IP

Its Dockerfile calls a /opt/bird-wrapper.sh entrypoint (
https://github.com/projectcalico/bird/blob/feature-ipinip/dist/amd64/birdy/bird-wrapper.sh),
which runs split IPv4/IPv6 daemons in bird 1.x style.

My previous gig ran BIRD in a custom container in a large distributed
environment for heavy production services.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 2:59 PM Matt Griswold <grizz at 20c.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:23:04PM +0000, Billy R Ridgway wrote:
> > I am interested in running Bird from within a docker container to act as
> a BGP router. I see that https://hub.docker.com/r/calico/bird
> <https://isolate-menlo.menlosecurity.com/0/eJyrViotylGyUsooKSkottLXzyhN0kvJT85OLdJLzs_VL9JPTszJTM7XT8osSlHSUSrKV7Iy1FEqyUwB6jE0sTRXqgUA6oYU9g>
> exists but when I deploy it it doesn’t seem to have anything inside of it.
> Maybe I am not using this calico bird container properly? If this is the
> wrong direction, I can just yum install a bird rpm into a ubi container and
> move forward that way. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> I have no idea on the calico container, but we run it in production with
> podman using an image that builds from source on ubi8. We didn't use the
> yum version because we have specific needs. but I'm sure it would work
> fine as well.
>
> Cheers
>
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