Building LINSTOR Container Images From Source With Docker

This article provides step-by-step instructions for building LINSTOR® Container images from source on CentOS 7.

Building LINSTOR containers requires Docker features that don’t exist in the version of Docker packaged in CentOS 7. Install the Docker Community Edition, docker-ce, from Docker repositories instead.

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
yum install docker-ce -y
systemctl enable docker.service --now

Then, clone the linstor-server source code and build the images.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/LINBIT/linstor-server
cd linstor-server

# Patch MR: https://gitlab.at.linbit.com/linstor/linstor-server/-/merge_requests/177
sed -i 's/www\.linbit\.com/pkg\.linbit\.com/g' Dockerfile.*

# Build containers
docker build -t linstor-controller -f Dockerfile.controller .
docker build -t linstor-satellite -f Dockerfile.satellite .

You can then push the built images to a registry using Docker.

MDK – 06/24/21