Nvidia-docker: RHEL 8 Support

[bdurepo1]

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1. Issue or feature description

Request RHEL 8 support from nvidia docker repository.

2. Steps to reproduce the issue

NA

3. Information to attach (optional if deemed irrelevant)

• [ ] Some nvidia-container information: nvidia-container-cli -k -d /dev/tty info
• [ ] Kernel version from uname -a
• [ ] Any relevant kernel output lines from dmesg
• [ ] Driver information from nvidia-smi -a
• [ ] Docker version from docker version
• [ ] NVIDIA packages version from dpkg -l '*nvidia*' _or_ rpm -qa '*nvidia*'
• [ ] NVIDIA container library version from nvidia-container-cli -V
• [ ] NVIDIA container library logs (see troubleshooting)
• [ ] Docker command, image and tag used

[RenaudWasTaken]

@Ethyling @rajatchopra can on you take a stab at testing if the normal RHEL 7.5 packages work on RHEL8 ?

If so we'll just symlink the RHEL8 folder to the RHEL 7.5 folder :)

[nhubbard]

I'd like to request that this is re-opened. Information about Docker in RHEL 8 is available here. If you don't have a Red Hat Access subscription, I'll save you the cost:

Is the docker package available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8?

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Issue

• I can't find the docker package in RHEL 8.
• The docker package is not available from the Red Hat repositories.

Resolution

• The docker package is not shipped or supported by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8. The Docker container engine is replaced by a suite of tools in the Container Tools module.
• The podman container engine replaced docker as the preferred, maintained, and supported container runtime of choice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 systems. Podman provides a docker compatible command line experience enabling users to find, run, build, and share containers. Podman uses Buildah and Skopeo as libraries for the build and push.
• The buildah utility replaced docker build as the preferred, maintained, and supported container images build tool in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 systems.
• The skopeo utility replaced docker push as the preferred, maintained and supported utility for moving container images between registries, and container engines.
• For an overview of all of these tools, please see: Building, running and managing containers - Chapter 1. Starting with containers
• For a deeper dive on podman specifically, please see: Building, running and managing containers - Chapter 7. Container command line reference

Root Cause

• The docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module.

Because of this change, we either need to:

• Look into integrating with Podman best solution, most intensive
• Only work with RHEL 7 until it leaves extended support, and actively recommend using another operating system last resort if Podman is incapable

[RenaudWasTaken]

Ah sorry I didn't mean to close this issue.

Podman should already be supported if you install the toolkit package:
yum install nvidia-container-toolkit

[bdurepo1]

Ah sorry I didn't mean to close this issue.

Podman should already be supported if you install the toolkit package:
yum install nvidia-container-toolkit

Please update this webpage to reference the RHEL 8 repository if there is one.
https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/

[bdurepo1]

Please reopen this issue so that we can track integration of podman.