Machine: Create ----generic-os CLI command

Created on 21 Mar 2016 · 8Comments · Source: docker/machine

One of the issues is that docker-machine will error out when there is no compatible os against /etc/os-release.

Let's add a --generic-os command so we can tell docker-machine what OS to exactly use!

For ex:

./bin/docker-machine create --driver generic --generic-ip-address 10.10.10.1 --generic-ssh-user centos --generic-os rhel

This will fill in the holes with certain providers (namely Oracle Linux) where providing an os option such as "rhel" would be suitable when there is no generic driver. This will fix issue https://github.com/docker/machine/issues/3164

Another being Project Atomic hosts (disclaimer; I'm part of the team) where /etc/os-release still lists "fedora" rather than "atomichost" (this has been fixed but won't apply until the next Fedora release, the CentOS team will take even longer to incorporate).

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cdrage

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"Container-Optimized OS" from google cloud is another not supported

$ cat /etc/os-release
BUILD_ID=9460.64.0
NAME="Container-Optimized OS"
KERNEL_COMMIT_ID=efee0d7cfca9bf17817d7b5d796b56fa75c3b217
GOOGLE_CRASH_ID=Lakitu
VERSION_ID=59
BUG_REPORT_URL=https://crbug.com/new
PRETTY_NAME="Container-Optimized OS from Google"
VERSION=59
GOOGLE_METRICS_PRODUCT_ID=26
HOME_URL="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/"
ID=cos

gzunino on 29 Jun 2017

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I think I'd prefer to just handle the special cases -- I'm not sure if anyone other than Redhat and CentOS violates the common convention of /etc/os-release, so maybe we can just check for those files specifically.

nathanleclaire on 22 Mar 2016

Oracle Linux case is handled. You may still need this for Project Atomic.

ezarko on 7 Apr 2016

@ezarko https://github.com/docker/machine/pull/3278/files I'm assuming?

cdrage on 7 Apr 2016

@cdrage exactly

ezarko on 25 Apr 2016

"Container-Optimized OS" from google cloud is another not supported

$ cat /etc/os-release
BUILD_ID=9460.64.0
NAME="Container-Optimized OS"
KERNEL_COMMIT_ID=efee0d7cfca9bf17817d7b5d796b56fa75c3b217
GOOGLE_CRASH_ID=Lakitu
VERSION_ID=59
BUG_REPORT_URL=https://crbug.com/new
PRETTY_NAME="Container-Optimized OS from Google"
VERSION=59
GOOGLE_METRICS_PRODUCT_ID=26
HOME_URL="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/"
ID=cos

gzunino on 29 Jun 2017

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Like... as long as the OS has systemd, wouldn't this be viable / work?

cdrage on 29 Jun 2017

Running into the same issue, as @gzunino The "Container-Optimized OS" gives this error when using docker-machine on google compute engine instance with their container optimized os (with docker preinstalled)

maartenvanvliet on 3 Jul 2017

Same issue with Gentoo:

cat /etc/os-release
NAME=Gentoo
ID=gentoo
PRETTY_NAME="Gentoo/Linux"
ANSI_COLOR="1;32"
HOME_URL="https://www.gentoo.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.gentoo.org/support/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.gentoo.org/"