These two packages almost always end up being required by programs,
but people don't necessarily consider them.
They will now always be added and their popularity is artificially
inflated to ensure they end up at the top of the layer list.
Image layers in manifests are now sorted in a stable (descending)
order based on their merge rating, meaning that layers more likely to
be shared between images come first.
The reason for this change is Docker's handling of image layers on
overlayfs2: Images are condensed into a single representation on disk
after downloading.
Due to this Docker will constantly redownload all layers that are
applied in a different order in different images (layer order matters
in imperatively created images), based on something it calls the
'ChainID'.
Sorting the layers this way raises the likelihood of a long chain of
matching layers at the beginning of an image.
This relates to #39.
Implements a local manifest cache that uses the temporary directory to
cache manifest builds.
This is necessary due to the size of manifests: Keeping them entirely
in-memory would quickly balloon the memory usage of Nixery, unless
some mechanism for cache eviction is implemented.
The functions used for layer creation are now easier to follow and
have clear points at which the layer cache is checked and populated.
This relates to #50.
MD5 hash checking is no longer performed by Nixery (it does not seem
to be necessary), hence the layer cache now only keeps the SHA256 hash
and size in the form of the manifest entry.
This makes it possible to restructure the builder code to perform
cache-fetching and cache-populating for layers in the same place.
The new builder now caches and reads cached manifests to/from GCS. The
in-memory cache is disabled, as manifests are no longer written to
local file and the caching of file paths does not work (unless we
reintroduce reading/writing from temp files as part of the local
cache).
This cache is no longer required as it is implicit because the layer
cache (mapping store path hashes to layer hashes) implies that a layer
has been seen.
Implements the new build process to the point where it can actually
construct and serve image manifests.
It is worth noting that this build process works even if the Nix
sandbox is enabled!
It is also worth nothing that none of the caching functionality that
the new build process enables (such as per-layer build caching) is
actually in use yet, hence running Nixery at this commit is prone to
doing more work than previously.
This relates to #50.
The new manifest package creates image manifests and their
configuration. This previously happened in Nix, but is now part of the
server's workload.
This relates to #50.
The new build process can now call out to Nix to create layers and
upload them to the bucket if necessary.
The layer cache is populated, but not yet used.
The state type contains things such as the bucket handle and Nixery's
configuration which need to be passed around in the builder.
This is only added for convenience.
This cache is going to be used for looking up whether a layer build
has taken place already (based on a hash of the layer contents).
See the caching section in the updated documentation for details.
Relates to #50.
Refactors the layer grouping package (which previously compiled to a
separate binary) to expose the layer grouping logic via a function
instead.
This is the next step towards creating layers inside of the server
component instead of in Nix.
Relates to #50.
Instead of dumping all Nix output as one at the end of the build
process, stream it live as the lines come in.
This is a lot more useful for debugging stuff like where manifest
retrievals get stuck.
Caches manifests under `manifests/$cacheKey` in the GCS bucket and
introduces two-tiered retrieval of manifests from the caches (local
first, bucket second).
There is some cleanup to be done in this code, but the initial version
works.
Use the PackageSource.CacheKey function introduced in the previous
commit to determine the key at which a manifest should be cached in
the local cache.
Due to this change, manifests for moving target sources are no longer
cached and the recency threshold logic has been removed.
Introduces three new types representing each of the possible package
sources and moves the logic for specifying the package source to the
server.
Concrete changes:
* Determining whether a specified git reference is a commit vs. a
branch/tag is now done in the server, and is done more precisely by
using a regular expression.
* Package sources now have a new `CacheKey` function which can be used
to retrieve a key under which a build manifest can be cached *if*
the package source is not a moving target (i.e. a full git commit
hash of either nixpkgs or a private repository).
This function is not yet used.
* Users *must* now specify a package source, Nixery no longer defaults
to anything and will fail to launch if no source is configured.
Adds a NIX_TIMEOUT environment variable which can be set to a number
of seconds that is the maximum allowed time each Nix builder can run.
By default this is set to 60 seconds, which should be plenty for most
use-cases as Nixery is not expected to be performing builds of
uncached binaries in most production cases.
Currently the errors Nix throws on a build timeout are not separated
from other types of errors, meaning that users will see a generic 500
server error in case of a timeout.
This fixes#47
Before this change, Nixery would pass on the image name unmodified to
Nix which would lead it to cache-bust the manifest and configuration
layers for images that are content-identical but have different
package ordering.
This fixes#38.
Implements a cache that keeps track of:
a) Manifests that have already been built (for up to 6 hours)
b) Layers that have already been seen (and uploaded to GCS)
This significantly speeds up response times for images that are full
or partial matches with previous images served by an instance.
ALl the ones except for build-image.nix are considered trivial. On the
latter, nixfmt makes some useful changes but by-and-large it is not
ready for that code yet.
Instead of requiring the server component to be made aware of the
location of the Nix builder via environment variables, this commit
introduces a wrapper script for the builder that can simply exist on
the builders $PATH.
This is one step towards a slightly nicer out-of-the-box experience
when using `nix-build -A nixery-bin`.
