Porto

Overview

Porto is a yet another Linux container management system.

The main goal is providing single entry point for several Linux subsystems such as cgroups, namespaces, mounts, networking, etc. Porto is intended to be a base for large infrastructure projects.

Key Features

• Nested containers - containers could be put into containers
• Nested virtualizaion - containers could use porto service too
• Flexible configuration - all container parameters are optional
• Reliable service - porto upgrades without restarting containers

Container management software build on top of porto could be transparently enclosed inside porto container.

Porto provides a protobuf interface via an unix socket /run/portod.socket.

Command line tool portoctl and C++, Python and Go APIs are included.

Porto requires Linux kernel 4.5 and optionally some offstream patches.

Dependencies

sudo apt install -y \
    g++ \
    cmake \
    protobuf-compiler \
    libprotobuf-dev \
    libgoogle-perftools-dev \
    libnl-3-dev \
    libnl-genl-3-dev \
    libnl-route-3-dev \
    libnl-idiag-3-dev \
    libncurses5-dev \
    libelf-dev \
    zlib1g-dev \
    pandoc \
    libbpf-dev # for focal or newer

# dependencies for deb package building
sudo apt install -y \
    dpkg-dev \
    debhelper \
    pkg-config \
    autoconf \
    libtool \
    dh-python \
    python-all \
    python-setuptools \
    python3-setuptools \
    bash-completion

Build

mkdir build && cd build

# use DUSE_SYSTEM_LIBBPF for xenial and bionic
cmake .. # -DUSE_SYSTEM_LIBBPF=OFF

# use make -j for parallel build
make

# default installation path is /usr/sbin
sudo make install

or

# should install additional dependencies for deb package building
./dpkg-buildpackage -b
sudo dpkg -i ../porto_*.deb

Run

sudo groupadd porto
sudo adduser $USER porto
sudo portod start
portoctl exec hello command='echo "Hello, world!"'

Documentation

• Porto manpage