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NAME
crun - a fast and lightweight OCI runtime
SYNOPSIS
crun [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
DESCRIPTION
crun is a command line program for running Linux containers that follow the Open Container
Initiative (OCI) format.
COMMANDS
create Create a container. The runtime detaches from the container process once the
container environment is created. It is necessary to successively use start for starting
the container.
delete Remove definition for a container.
exec Exec a command in a running container.
list List known containers.
kill Send the specified signal to the container init process. If no signal is specified,
SIGTERM is used.
ps Show the processes running in a container.
run Create and immediately start a container.
spec Generate a configuration file.
start Start a container that was previously created. A container cannot be started
multiple times.
state Output the state of a container.
pause Pause all the processes in the container.
resume Resume the processes in the container.
update Update container resource constraints.
checkpoint Checkpoint a running container using CRIU
restore Restore a container from a checkpoint
STATE
By default, when running as root user, crun saves its state under the /run/crun directory.
As unprivileged user, instead the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable is honored, and the
directory $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/crun is used. The global option --root overrides this setting.
GLOBAL OPTIONS
--debug Produce verbose output.
--log=LOG-DESTINATION Define the destination for the error and warning messages generated
by crun. If the error happens late in the container init process, when crun already
stopped watching it, then it will be printed to the container stderr.
It is specified in the form BACKEND:SPECIFIER.
These following backends are supported:
• file:PATH
• journald:IDENTIFIER
• syslog:IDENTIFIER
If no backend is specified, then file: is used by default.
--log-format=FORMAT Define the format of the log messages. It can either be text, or
json. The default is text.
--no-pivot Use chroot(2) instead of pivot_root(2) when creating the container. This
option is not safe, and should be avoided.
--root=DIR Defines where to store the state for crun containers.
--systemd-cgroup Use systemd for configuring cgroups. If not specified, the cgroup is
created directly using the cgroupfs backend.
--cgroup-manager=MANAGER Specify what cgroup manager must be used. Permitted values are
cgroupfs, systemd and disabled.
-?, --help Print a help list.
--usage Print a short usage message.
-V, --version Print program version
CREATE OPTIONS
crun [global options] create [options] CONTAINER
--bundle=PATH Path to the OCI bundle, by default it is the current directory.
--config=FILE Override the configuration file to use. The default value is config.json.
--console-socket=SOCKET Path to a UNIX socket that will receive the ptmx end of the tty
for the container.
--no-new-keyring Keep the same session key
--preserve-fds=N Additional number of FDs to pass into the container.
--pid-file=PATH Path to the file that will contain the container process PID.
RUN OPTIONS
crun [global options] run [options] CONTAINER
--bundle=BUNDLE Path to the OCI bundle, by default it is the current directory.
--config=FILE Override the configuration file to use. The default value is config.json.
--console-socket=SOCKET Path to a UNIX socket that will receive the ptmx end of the tty
for the container.
--no-new-keyring Keep the same session key.
--preserve-fds=N Additional number of FDs to pass into the container.
--pid-file=PATH Path to the file that will contain the container process PID.
--detach Detach the container process from the current session.
DELETE OPTIONS
crun [global options] delete [options] CONTAINER
--force Delete the container even if it is still running.
--regex=REGEX Delete all the containers that satisfy the specified regex.
EXEC OPTIONS
crun [global options] exec [options] CONTAINER CMD
--apparmor=PROFILE Set the apparmor profile for the process.
--console-socket=SOCKET Path to a UNIX socket that will receive the ptmx end of the tty
for the container.
--cwd=PATH Set the working directory for the process to PATH.
--cap=CAP Specify an additional capability to add to the process.
--detach Detach the container process from the current session.
--cgroup=PATH Specify a sub-cgroup path inside the container cgroup. The path must
already exist in the container cgroup.
--env=ENV Specify an environment variable.
--no-new-privs Set the no new privileges value for the process.
--preserve-fds=N Additional number of FDs to pass into the container.
--process=FILE Path to a file containing the process JSON configuration.
--process-label=VALUE Set the asm process label for the process commonly used with
selinux.
--pid-file=PATH Path to the file that will contain the new process PID.
-t --tty Allocate a pseudo TTY.
**-u USERSPEC --user=USERSPEC Specify the user in the form UID[:GID].
LIST OPTIONS
crun [global options] list [options]
-q --quiet Show only the container ID.
KILL OPTIONS
crun [global options] kill [options] CONTAINER SIGNAL
--all Kill all the processes in the container.
--regex=REGEX Kill all the containers that satisfy the specified regex.
PS OPTIONS
crun [global options] ps [options]
--format=FORMAT Specify the output format. It must be either table or json. By default
table is used.
SPEC OPTIONS
crun [global options] spec [options]
-b DIR --bundle=DIR Path to the root of the bundle dir (default ".").
--rootless Generate a config.json file that is usable by an unprivileged user.
UPDATE OPTIONS
crun [global options] update [options] CONTAINER
--blkio-weight=VALUE Specifies per cgroup weight.
--cpu-period=VALUE CPU CFS period to be used for hardcapping.
--cpu-quota=VALUE CPU CFS hardcap limit.
--cpu-rt-period=VALUE CPU realtime period to be used for hardcapping.
--cpu-rt-runtime=VALUE CPU realtime hardcap limit.
--cpu-share=VALUE CPU shares.
--cpuset-cpus=VALUE CPU(s) to use.
--cpuset-mems=VALUE Memory node(s) to use.
--kernel-memory=VALUE Kernel memory limit.
--kernel-memory-tcp=VALUE Kernel memory limit for TCP buffer.
--memory=VALUE Memory limit.
--memory-reservation=VALUE Memory reservation or soft_limit.
--memory-swap=VALUE Total memory usage.
--pids-limit=VALUE Maximum number of pids allowed in the container.
-r, --resources=FILE Path to the file containing the resources to update.
CHECKPOINT OPTIONS
crun [global options] checkpoint [options] CONTAINER
--image-path=DIR Path for saving CRIU image files
--work-path=DIR Path for saving work files and logs
--leave-running Leave the process running after checkpointing
--tcp-established Allow open TCP connections
--ext-unix-sk Allow external UNIX sockets
--shell-job Allow shell jobs
--pre-dump Only checkpoint the container's memory without stopping the container. It is
not possible to restore a container from a pre-dump. A pre-dump always needs a final
checkpoint (without --pre-dump). It is possible to make as many pre-dumps as necessary.
For a second pre-dump or for a final checkpoint it is necessary to use --parent-path to
point crun (and thus CRIU) to the pre-dump.
--parent-path=DIR Doing multiple pre-dumps or the final checkpoint after one or multiple
pre-dumps requires that crun (and thus CRIU) knows the location of the pre-dump. It is
important to use a relative path from the actual checkpoint directory specified via
--image-path. It will fail if an absolute path is used.
--manage-cgroups-mode=MODE Specify which CRIU manage cgroup mode should be used. Permitted
values are soft, ignore, full or strict. Default is soft.
RESTORE OPTIONS
crun [global options] restore [options] CONTAINER
-b DIR --bundle=DIR Container bundle directory (default ".")
--image-path=DIR Path for saving CRIU image files
--work-path=DIR Path for saving work files and logs
--tcp-established Allow open TCP connections
--ext-unix Allow external UNIX sockets
--shell-job Allow shell jobs
--detach Detach from the container's process
--pid-file=FILE Where to write the PID of the container
--manage-cgroups-mode=MODE Specify which CRIU manage cgroup mode should be used. Permitted
values are soft, ignore, full or strict. Default is soft.
Extensions to OCI
run.oci.mount_context_type=context
Set the mount context type on volumes mounted with SELinux labels.
Valid context types are:
context (default)
fscontext
defcontext
rootcontext
More information on how the context mount flags works see the mount(8) man page.
run.oci.seccomp.receiver=PATH
If the annotation run.oci.seccomp.receiver=PATH is specified, the seccomp listener is sent
to the UNIX socket listening on the specified path. It can also set with the
RUN_OCI_SECCOMP_RECEIVER environment variable. It is an experimental feature, and the
annotation will be removed once it is supported in the OCI runtime specs. It must be an
absolute path.
run.oci.seccomp.plugins=PATH
If the annotation run.oci.seccomp.plugins=PLUGIN1[:PLUGIN2]... is specified, the seccomp
listener fd is handled through the specified plugins. The plugin must either be an
absolute path or a file name that is looked up by dlopen(3). More information on how the
lookup is performed are available on the ld.so(8) man page.
run.oci.seccomp_fail_unknown_syscall=1
If the annotation run.oci.seccomp_fail_unknown_syscall is present, then crun will fail
when an unknown syscall is encountered in the seccomp configuration.
run.oci.seccomp_bpf_data=PATH
If the annotation run.oci.seccomp_bpf_data is present, then crun ignores the seccomp
section in the OCI configuration file and use the specified data as the raw data to the
seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER) syscall. The data must be encoded in base64.
It is an experimental feature, and the annotation will be removed once it is supported in
the OCI runtime specs.
run.oci.keep_original_groups=1
If the annotation run.oci.keep_original_groups is present, then crun will skip the
setgroups syscall that is used to either set the additional groups specified in the OCI
configuration, or to reset the list of additional groups if none is specified.
run.oci.pidfd_receiver=PATH
It is an experimental feature and will be removed once the feature is in the OCI runtime
specs.
If present, specify the path to the UNIX socket that will receive the pidfd for the
container process.
run.oci.systemd.force_cgroup_v1=/PATH
If the annotation run.oci.systemd.force_cgroup_v1=/PATH is present, then crun will
override the specified mount point /PATH with a cgroup v1 mount made of a single hierarchy
none,name=systemd. It is useful to run on a cgroup v2 system containers using older
versions of systemd that lack support for cgroup v2.
Note: Your container host has to have the cgroup v1 mount already present, otherwise this
will not work. If you want to run the container rootless, the user it runs under has to
have permissions to this mountpoint.
For example, as root:
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
mount cgroup -t cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd -o none,name=systemd,xattr
chown -R the_user.the_user /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
run.oci.systemd.subgroup=SUBGROUP
Override the name for the systemd sub cgroup created under the systemd scope, so the final
cgroup will be like:
/sys/fs/cgroup/$PATH/$SUBGROUP
When it is set to the empty string, a sub cgroup is not created.
If not specified, it defaults to container on cgroup v2, and to "" on cgroup v1.
e.g.
/sys/fs/cgroup//system.slice/foo-352700.scope/container
run.oci.delegate-cgroup=DELEGATED-CGROUP
If the run.oci.systemd.subgroup annotation is specified, yet another sub-cgroup is created
and the container process is moved here.
If a cgroup namespace is used, the cgroup namespace is created before moving the container
to the delegated cgroup.
/sys/fs/cgroup/$PATH/$SUBGROUP/$DELEGATED-CGROUP
The runtime doesn't apply any limit to the $DELEGATED-CGROUP sub-cgroup, the runtime uses
only $PATH/$SUBGROUP.
The container payload fully manages $DELEGATE-CGROUP, the limits applied to
$PATH/$SUBGROUP still applies to $DELEGATE-CGROUP.
Since cgroup delegation is not safe on cgroup v1, this option is supported only on cgroup
v2.
run.oci.hooks.stdout=FILE
If the annotation run.oci.hooks.stdout is present, then crun will open the specified file
and use it as the stdout for the hook processes. The file is opened in append mode and it
is created if it doesn't already exist.
run.oci.hooks.stderr=FILE
If the annotation run.oci.hooks.stderr is present, then crun will open the specified file
and use it as the stderr for the hook processes. The file is opened in append mode and it
is created if it doesn't already exist.
run.oci.handler=HANDLER
It is an experimental feature.
If specified, run the specified handler for execing the container. The only supported
values are krun and wasm.
• krun: When krun is specified, the libkrun.so shared object is loaded and it is
used to launch the container using libkrun.
• wasm: If specified, run the wasm handler for container. Allows running wasm
workload natively. Accepts a .wasm binary as input and if .wat is provided it
will be automatically compiled into a wasm module. Stdout of wasm module is
relayed back via crun.
tmpcopyup mount options
If the tmpcopyup option is specified for a tmpfs, then the path that is shadowed by the
tmpfs mount is recursively copied up to the tmpfs itself.
r$FLAG mount options
If a r$FLAG mount option is specified then the flag $FLAG is set recursively for each
children mount.
These flags are supported:
• "rro"
• "rrw"
• "rsuid"
• "rnosuid"
• "rdev"
• "rnodev"
• "rexec"
• "rnoexec"
• "rsync"
• "rasync"
• "rdirsync"
• "rmand"
• "rnomand"
• "ratime"
• "rnoatime"
• "rdiratime"
• "rnodiratime"
• "rrelatime"
• "rnorelatime"
• "rstrictatime"
• "rnostrictatime"
idmap mount options
If the idmap option is specified then the mount is ID mapped using the container target
user namespace. This is an experimental feature and can change at any time without
notice.
The idmap option supports a custom mapping that can be different than the user namespace
used by the container.
The mapping can be specified after the idmap option like:
idmap=uids=0-1-10#10-11-10;gids=0-100-10.
For each triplet, the first value is the start of the backing file system IDs that are
mapped to the second value on the host. The length of this mapping is given in the third
value.
Multiple ranges are separated with #.
These values are written to the /proc/$PID/uid_map and /proc/$PID/gid_map files to create
the user namespace for the idmapped mount.
The only two options that are currently supported after idmap are uids and gids.
When a custom mapping is specified, a new user namespace is created for the idmapped
mount.
If no option is specified, then the container user namespace is used.
If the specified mapping is prepended with a '@' then the mapping is considered relative
to the container user namespace. The host ID for the mapping is changed to account for
the relative position of the container user in the container user namespace.
For example, the mapping: uids=@1-3-10, given a configuration like
"uidMappings": [
{
"containerID": 0,
"hostID": 0,
"size": 1
},
{
"containerID": 1,
"hostID": 2,
"size": 1000
}
]
will be converted to the absolute value uids=1-4-10, where 4 is calculated by adding 3
(container ID in the uids= mapping) and 1 (hostID - containerID for the user namespace
mapping where containerID = 1 is found).
The current implementation doesn't take into account multiple user namespace ranges, so it
is the caller's responsibility to split a mapping if it overlaps multiple ranges in the
user namespace. In such a case, there won't be any error reported.
Automatically create user namespace
When running as user different than root, an user namespace is automatically created even
if it is not specified in the config file. The current user is mapped to the ID 0 in the
container, and any additional id specified in the files /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid is
automatically added starting with ID 1.
CGROUP v2
Note: cgroup v2 does not yet support control of realtime processes and the cpu controller
can only be enabled when all RT processes are in the root cgroup. This will make crun fail
while running alongside RT processes.
If the cgroup configuration found is for cgroup v1, crun attempts a conversion when
running on a cgroup v2 system.
These are the OCI resources currently supported with cgroup v2 and how they are converted
when needed from the cgroup v1 configuration.
Memory controller
┌────────────┬────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│OCI (x) │ cgroup 2 value (y) │ conversion │ comment │
├────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│limit │ memory.max │ y = x │ │
├────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│swap │ memory.swap.max │ y = x - memory_limit │ the swap limit on │
│ │ │ │ cgroup v1 includes │
│ │ │ │ the memory usage │
│ │ │ │ too │
├────────────┼────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│reservation │ memory.low │ y = x │ │
└────────────┴────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
PIDs controller
┌────────┬────────────────────┬────────────┬─────────┐
│OCI (x) │ cgroup 2 value (y) │ conversion │ comment │
├────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┤
│limit │ pids.max │ y = x │ │
└────────┴────────────────────┴────────────┴─────────┘
CPU controller
┌────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│OCI (x) │ cgroup 2 value (y) │ conversion │ comment │
├────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│shares │ cpu.weight │ y = (1 + ((x - 2) * │ │
│ │ │ 9999) / 262142) │ │
├────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ │ convert from │ │ │
│ │ [2-262144] to │ │ │
│ │ [1-10000] │ │ │
├────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│period │ cpu.max │ y = x │ period and quota │
│ │ │ │ are written │
│ │ │ │ together │
├────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│quota │ cpu.max │ y = x │ period and quota │
│ │ │ │ are written │
│ │ │ │ together │
└────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
blkio controller
┌──────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│OCI (x) │ cgroup 2 value (y) │ conversion │ comment │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│weight │ io.bfq.weight │ y = x │ │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│weight_device │ io.bfq.weight │ y = x │ │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│weight │ io.weight (fallback) │ y = 1 + (x-10)*9999/990 │ convert linearly │
│ │ │ │ from [10-1000] to │
│ │ │ │ [1-10000] │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│weight_device │ io.weight (fallback) │ y = 1 + (x-10)*9999/990 │ convert linearly │
│ │ │ │ from [10-1000] to │
│ │ │ │ [1-10000] │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│rbps │ io.max │ y=x │ │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│wbps │ io.max │ y=x │ │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│riops │ io.max │ y=x │ │
├──────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│wiops │ io.max │ y=x │ │
└──────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
cpuset controller
┌────────┬────────────────────┬────────────┬─────────┐
│OCI (x) │ cgroup 2 value (y) │ conversion │ comment │
├────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┤
│cpus │ cpuset.cpus │ y = x │ │
├────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┤
│mems │ cpuset.mems │ y = x │ │
└────────┴────────────────────┴────────────┴─────────┘
hugetlb controller
┌────────────────┬────────────────────┬────────────┬─────────┐
│OCI (x) │ cgroup 2 value (y) │ conversion │ comment │
├────────────────┼────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────┤
│.limit_in_bytes │ hugetlb..max │ y = x │ │
└────────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────┴─────────┘
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