Chain command in makefile to connect to postgres container via the IP - bash

I have created a postgres container which is running detached.
I would like to be able to create a command in a Makefile make psql where I can connect from my host machine to the container via psql and check data is being inserted correctly.
I am struggling with how to compose the makefile command. So far I got:
Makefile
PG_CONTAINER=project_ch_pg_run_1
test_ip_1:
docker exec -it project_ch_pg_run_1 hostname -i
test_ip_2:
docker exec -it $(PG_CONTAINER) hostname -i
test_ip_3:
IP=$$(docker exec -it $(PG_CONTAINER) hostname -i); \
echo "Here's the IP of the container:$(IP)"
pslq:
IP=$$(docker exec -it project_ch_pg_run_1 hostname -i); \
psql postgres://ch_user:ch_pass#$(IP):5432/ch_dib
Results:
1 works fine.
make test_ip_1
docker exec -it project_ch_pg_run_1 hostname -i
192.168.96.2
2 variable substitution works.
docker exec -it project_ch_pg_run_1 hostname -i
192.168.96.2
3 storing result of command in IP variable and performing substitution does not work.
IP=$(docker exec -it project_ch_pg_run_1 hostname -i); \
echo "Here's the IP of the container:"
Here's the IP of the container:
4 storing result of command in IP variable and use it to compose pg URI does not work.
IP=$(docker exec -it project_ch_pg_run_1 hostname -i); \
psql postgres://ch_user:ch_pass#:5432/ch_dib
psql: error: could not connect to server: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
Makefile:15: recipe for target 'psql' failed
make: *** [psql] Error 2
I have been going around for hours but I cannot seem to find the right syntax to chain these commands - any help would be really appreciated.

You have to keep clear in your mind the difference between make variables and shell variables.
Here:
test_ip_3:
IP=$$(docker exec -it $(PG_CONTAINER) hostname -i); \
echo "Here's the IP of the container:$(IP)"
You correctly escape the invocation of the docker program using $$(...) so that this syntax is not considered a make variable.
But then you set the shell variable IP, and in the next line you use $(IP) which is a reference to the make variable IP, which you've never set.
You need to use:
test_ip_3:
IP=$$(docker exec -it $(PG_CONTAINER) hostname -i); \
echo "Here's the IP of the container:$$IP"
to print the value of the shell variable IP.

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When I install something like nmap(even from APT), I cant get it to execute correctly, so I like to go the container route. Instead of typing:
docker run --rm -it instrumentisto/nmap -A -T4 scanme.nmap.org
I figured maybe I could script it out, but nothing i've learned or found on google, youtube, etc, has helped so far... Can somebody lend a hand? I need to know how to get Bash to execute a command with args:
execute like:
./nmap.sh -A -T4 -Pn x.x.x.x
#!/bin/bash
echo docker run --rm -it instrumentisto/nmap $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
but how to get bash to run this instead of just echo I dont know. Thanks ahead!
Two solutions: create an alias, create a script.
With an alias
The command you write is replaced with the value of the alias, so
alias nmap="docker run --rm -it instrumentisto/nmap"
nmap -A -T4 -Pn x.x.x.x
# executes docker run --rm -it instrumentisto/nmap -A -T4 -Pn x.x.x.x
Aliases are not persistent so you will have to store it in some bash config (generally ~/.bashrc).
With a script
#!/bin/bash
set -Eeuo pipefail
docker run --rm -it instrumentisto/nmap "$#"
"$#" will forward all the arguments provided to the script directly to the command. The quotes are important, if you call your script with quoted values like ./nmap "something with spaces", that's one argument, it needs to be kept as one argument.
Bonus: With a function
Just like the script, you need to forward arguments when writing functions, just like aliases, they are not persistent so you have to store them in bash config:
nmap() {
docker run --rm -it instrumentisto/nmap "$#"
}

Not able to access env variables in kubernetes pod

In my pod I have some env variables. I have written a bash script to get inside the pod and connect to database using the env variables. But am not able to use the env variables.
kubectl exec $POD_ID -- /bin/bash -c """
printenv DATABASE_HOST_NAME
echo $DATABASE_HOST_NAME
psql -h $DATABASE_HOST_NAME -U DATABASE_USER
"""
Here printenv returns the correct env variable value. echo returns empty. And psql statement doesn't take the host.
Anyone has any idea how i can use the env variables in the pod in my psql connection statement.
When i manually get in the container and run the psql command with env variable it works file.But when running the script it shows the error.
As DATABASE_HOST_NAME is defined in k8s pod, you need single quote to avoid $DATABASE_HOST_NAME to be expanded on the host.
kubectl exec $POD_ID -- /bin/bash -c '
printenv DATABASE_HOST_NAME
echo $DATABASE_HOST_NAME
psql -h $DATABASE_HOST_NAME -U DATABASE_USER
'

Unable to run queries from a file using psql command line with docker exec

I have a bash file should bring the postgres docker container online and then run a .sql file to create the databases. But it's throwing the error.
psql: error: provision-db.sql: No such file or directory
I have checked the path and the file exists at the same level of this bash script. Following is the content of my bash file.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
docker-compose up -d db
# Ensure the Postgres server is online and usable
until docker exec -i boohoo.postgres pg_isready --host="${POSTGRES_HOST}" --username="${POSTGRES_USER}"
do
echo "."
sleep 1
done
docker exec -i boohoo.postgres psql -h "${POSTGRES_HOST}" -U "${POSTGRES_USER}" -a -q -f provision-db.sql
And this is the provision-db.sql file.
DROP DATABASE "boo-hoo";
CREATE DATABASE "boo-hoo";
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE "boo-hoo" TO postgres;
This is the part of docker-compose.yml
version: '3.3'
services:
db:
container_name: boohoo.postgres
hostname: postgres.boohoo
image: postgres
ports:
- "15432:5432"
environment:
POSTGRES_USER: "postgres"
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "postgres"
The short version
This works
cat provision-db.sql | docker exec -i boohoo.postgres bash -c 'psql -U ${POSTGRES_USER} -w -a -q -f -'
The long version
multiple things here
1) why does following command not find the provision-db.sql?
docker exec -i boohoo.postgres psql -h "${POSTGRES_HOST}" -U "${POSTGRES_USER}" -a -q -f provision-db.sql
because the provision-db.sql is on your host and not in your container. Therefore, when you execute the psql command inside the container it can not find the file
2) Why didn't my first solution work?
cat provision-db.sql | docker exec -i boohoo.postgres psql -h "${POSTGRES_HOST}" -U "${POSTGRES_USER}" -a -q -f - should do the trick asuming provision-db.sql
That is due to the fact, that the variables ${POSTGRES_USER} and ${POSTGRES_PASSWORD} get evaluated on your host machine and I guess they are not set there. In addition, I forgot to specify the -w flag to avoid the password prompt
3) Why does that work?
cat provision-db.sql | docker exec -i boohoo.postgres bash -c 'psql -U ${POSTGRES_USER} -w -a -q -f -'
Well, let's go through it step by step.
First, we print the content of provision-db.sql, which resides on the host machine to stdout and pipe it to the next command via |.
docker-exec executes a command in the container specified (boohoo.postgres). By specifying the -i flag we allow the stdin from your host to go to stdin in the container <- that's important.
In the container, we execute bash -c which is just a wrapper to avoid evaluating the bash variables on the host. We want the variables from the container and by putting it into single quotes we can do that.
docker-exec boohoo.postgres bash -c "echo $POSTGRES_USER"
evaluates the host env variable named POSTGRES_USER.
docker-exec boohoo.postgres bash -c "echo $POSTGRES_USER"
evaluates the container env variable named POSTGRES_USER.
Next we just have to get our postgres command in order.
psql -U ${POSTGRES_USER} -w -a -q -f -
-U specifies the user
-w does not ask for password
-q do it quietly
-f - process whatever you get from stdin
-f is an option for psql and not for docker exec, and psql is running inside the container, so it can only access the file if it is inside the container as well.

"docker run" dies after exiting a bash shell script

I'm attempting to craft system admin bash tools for starting up a Docker image.
But such docker run keeps dying on me after its bash script exited.
The actual working bash script in question is:
#!/bin/sh
docker run \
--name publicnginx1 \
-v /var/www:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro \
-v /var/nginx/conf:/etc/nginx:ro \
--rm \
-p 80 \
-p 443 \
-d \
nginx
docker ps
Executing the simple script resulted in:
# ./docker-run-nginx.sh
743a6eaa33f435e3e0d211c4047bc9af4d4667dc31cd249e481850f40f848c83
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
743a6eaa33f4 nginx "nginx -g 'daemon of…" 1 second ago Up Less than a second 0.0.0.0:32778->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:32777->443/tcp publicnginx1
And after that bash script gets completed, I executed 'docker ps'
# docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
There is no Docker running.
What did I do wrong?
Try to run it without --rm.
You can see all container (including the one that already died using this command):
> docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS
743a6eaa33f4 nginx "nginx -g 'daemon of…" 1 second ago Exited (??) ??
^^^^^
You should be able to look at what is the exit code of the container. Using the container id, you can also look into it's log to understand better what is going on:
docker logs 743a6eaa33f4
If you still can't figure it out, you can start the container with tty to run bash, and try to run the command inside it.
docker run -it -v /var/www:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -v /var/nginx/conf:/etc/nginx:ro --rm -p 80 -p 443 nginx bash

Using ssh-agent with docker on macOS

I would like to use ssh-agent to forward my keys into the docker image and pull from a private github repo.
I am using a slightly modified version of https://github.com/phusion/passenger-docker with boot2docker on Yosemite.
ssh-add -l
...key details
boot2docker up
Then I use the command which I have seen in a number of places (i.e. https://gist.github.com/d11wtq/8699521):
docker run --rm -t -i -v $SSH_AUTH_SOCK:/ssh-agent -e SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/ssh-agent my_image /bin/bash
However it doesn't seem to work:
root#299212f6fee3:/# ssh-add -l
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
root#299212f6fee3:/# eval `ssh-agent -s`
Agent pid 19
root#299212f6fee3:/# ssh-add -l
The agent has no identities.
root#299212f6fee3:/# ssh git#github.com
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '192.30.252.128' to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
Since version 2.2.0.0, docker for macOS allows users to access the host’s SSH agent inside containers.
Here's an example command that let's you do it:
docker run --rm -it \
-v /run/host-services/ssh-auth.sock:/ssh-agent \
-e SSH_AUTH_SOCK="/ssh-agent" \
my_image
Note that you have to mount the specific path (/run/host-services/ssh-auth.sock) instead of the path contained in $SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable, like you would do on linux hosts.
A one-liner:
Here’s how to set it up on Ubuntu 16 running a Debian Jessie image:
docker run --rm -it --name container_name \
-v $(dirname $SSH_AUTH_SOCK):$(dirname $SSH_AUTH_SOCK) \
-e SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK my_image
https://techtip.tech.blog/2016/12/04/using-ssh-agent-forwarding-with-a-docker-container/
I expanded on #wilwilson's answer, and created a script that will setup agent forwarding in an OSX boot2docker environment.
https://gist.github.com/rcoup/53e8dee9f5ea27a51855
#!/bin/bash
# Use a unique ssh socket name per-invocation of this script
SSH_SOCK=boot2docker.$$.ssh.socket
# ssh into boot2docker with agent forwarding
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_boot2docker \
-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
-o IdentitiesOnly=yes \
-o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null \
-o LogLevel=quiet \
-p 2022 docker#localhost \
-A -M -S $SSH_SOCK -f -n \
tail -f /dev/null
# get the agent socket path from the boot2docker vm
B2D_AGENT_SOCK=$(ssh -S $SSH_SOCK docker#localhost echo \$SSH_AUTH_SOCK)
# mount the socket (from the boot2docker vm) onto the docker container
# and set the ssh agent environment variable so ssh tools pick it up
docker run \
-v $B2D_AGENT_SOCK:/ssh-agent \
-e "SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/ssh-agent" \
"$#"
# we're done; kill off the boot2docker ssh agent
ssh -S $SSH_SOCK -O exit docker#localhost
Stick it in ~/bin/docker-run-ssh, chmod +x it, and use docker-run-ssh instead of docker run.
I ran into a similar issue, and was able to make things pretty seamless by using ssh in master mode with a control socket and wrapping it all in a script like this:
#!/bin/sh
ssh -i ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -p 2222 -A -M -S ssh.socket -f docker#127.0.0.1 tail -f /dev/null
HOST_SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(ssh -S ssh.socket docker#127.0.0.1 env | grep "SSH_AUTH_SOCK" | cut -f 2 -d =)
docker run -v $HOST_SSH_AUTH_SOCK:/ssh-agent \
-e "SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/ssh-agent" \
-t hello-world "$#"
ssh -S ssh.socket -O exit docker#127.0.0.1
Not the prettiest thing in the universe, but much better than manually keeping an SSH session open IMO.
For me accessing ssh-agent to forward keys worked on OSX Mavericks and docker 1.5 as follows:
ssh into the boot2docker VM with boot2docker ssh -A. Don't forget to use option -A which enables forwarding of the authentication agent connection.
Inside the boot2docker ssh session:
docker#boot2docker:~$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/ssh-BRLb99Y69U/agent.7750
This session must be left open. Take note of the value of the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environmental variable.
In another OS X terminal issue the docker run command with the SSH_AUTH_SOCK value from step 2 as follows:
docker run --rm -t -i \
-v /tmp/ssh-BRLb99Y69U/agent.7750:/ssh-agent \
-e SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/ssh-agent my_image /bin/bash
root#600d0e9b443d:/# ssh-add -l
2048 6c:8e:82:08:74:33:78:61:f9:9a:74:1b:65:46:be:eb
/Users/dev/.ssh/id_rsa (RSA)
I don't really like the fact that I have to keep a boot2docker ssh session open to make this work, but until a better solution is found, this at least worked for me.
Socket forwarding doesn't work on OS X yet. Here is a variation of #henrjk answer brought into 2019 using Docker for Mac instead of boot2docker which is now obsolete.
First run a ssh server in the container, with /tmp being on the exportable volume. Like this
docker run -v tmp:/tmp -v \
${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub:/root/.ssh/authorized_keys:ro \
-d -p 2222:22 arvindr226/alpine-ssh
Then ssh into this container with agent forwarding
ssh -A -p 2222 root#localhost
Inside of that ssh session find out the current socket for ssh-agent
3f53fa1f5452:~# echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
/tmp/ssh-9zjJcSa3DM/agent.7
Now you can run your real container. Just make sure to replace the value of SSH_AUTH_SOCK below, with the value you got in the step above
docker run -it -v tmp:/tmp \
-e SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-9zjJcSa3DM/agent.7 \
vladistan/ansible
By default, boot2docker shares only files under /Users. SSH_AUTH_SOCK is probably under /tmp so the -v mounts the agent of the VM, not the one from your mac.
If you setup your VirtualBox to share /tmp, it should be working.
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
This error occurs when $SSH_AUTH_SOCK env var is set incorrectly on the host or not set at all. There are various workarounds you could try. My suggestion, however, is to dual-boot Linux and macOS.
Additional resources:
Using SSH keys inside docker container - Related Question
SSH and docker-compose - Blog post
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