Run bird from a container

[Nell Jerram]

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:19 AM Nell Jerram <nell at tigera.io> wrote:

> Hi, I'm from Tigera and responsible for that calico/bird image, so just
> adding a few more details in case they are of interest.
>
> Probably the most important thing is that it's using BIRD 1.6.8 (plus some
> deltas as Hugo pointed out); I guess Billy that you will probably prefer
> something based on the latest BIRD code.
>
> It doesn't contain any peering config, but its config file includes
>
>     include "/etc/bird/*.conf";
>
> So when we use this for our own network modelling, we start the container
> with docker run, then inject the peering config with code like
>
>         cat <<EOF | docker exec -i bird-a1 sh -c "cat >
> /etc/bird/peer-rb1.conf"
>     protocol bgp rb1 {
>       description "Connection to BGP peer";
>       local as 65001;
>       ...
>     }
>     EOF
>         docker exec bird-a1 birdcl configure
>
> The code for the fork and image building can be found at
> https://github.com/projectcalico/bird.
>
> Best wishes,
>     Nell
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:09 AM Hugo Slabbert via Bird-users <
> bird-users at network.cz> wrote:
>
>> 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 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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