Implementing Samba in Containers

[John Mulligan]

On Monday, June 28, 2021 9:17:22 AM EDT Igor Chudov via samba-technical wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> At BaseALT we're interested in running Samba in containers for testing
> purposes but mostly locally, in Docker or Podman, not in Kubernetes. We
> will be glad to join the project but I'm not sure how we can help.
> 

That's great to hear! Personally, I'd love it if a few more people simply want 
to "kick the tires" - try out the builds, read the docs, and give any and all 
feedback that comes to mind. :-)


> Have you any experience in running Samba containers orchestrated by
> OpenNebula?

Nope, this is the first I'm hearing of it. I'll read up some more about it. If 
it supports running OCI containers in a manner similar to docker I think it 
could work.

> 
> On 28.06.2021 3:20, John Mulligan via samba-technical wrote:
> > Hi List,
> > 
> > I wanted to follow up on something that I learned from a thread on the
> > user's list [1] recently.  Specifically, that I'm not the only one
> > working on "containerizing" samba components.  Some readers may be aware
> > of my container efforts if you attended our talk at sambaxp, or saw the
> > recording [2]. While we focused quite a bit on the Kubernetes parts there
> > I want to skip over Kubernetes in this mail and focus on the (OCI)
> > container images.
> > 
> > Michael Adam started a project [3] to build container images for Samba. We
> > publish our images on quay.io [4]. I have
> > been involved there for a little under a year now. We mainly have been
> > focused on our immediate needs but I wanted to reach out and see who may
> > be interested in collaborating on containerizing Samba.
> > 
> > In the samba-containers project we have three images that are built:
> > * A file server image
> > * A client image (smbclient)
> > * An AD DC image
> > 
> > The file server is my main focus for our Kubernetes efforts. The other two
> > images we are generally using only for test and are currently very
> > simplistic. But I'd like to see all the images become generally useful,
> > so that's why I'm writing this - to seek out any parties in the wider
> > Samba community who may be interesting collaborating on this effort - or
> > even just discussing containerization of Samba.  I would also like to
> > re-emphasize that despite the name of the Org in the project url, none of
> > it is meant to be Kubernetes specific. I'd personally be thrilled to see
> > it get used in other contexts, with other orchestration systems,
> > docker-compose, or direct docker & podman. More eyes on the project from
> > others who aren't focused on k8s can help keep us honest. :-)
> > 
> > In conclusion, I'd like to hear from anyone reading this if you're
> > interested in samba in containers, even if you're not so interested in
> > our particular efforts - but especially if you are :-). I'm curious if
> > anyone wants to know more about the nuts-and-bolts of how we're designing
> > the current containers and if you have feedback. In addition, if you are
> > already running samba in containers or have your own images, I'd love to
> > hear about them and any challenges or successes you've had.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time!
> > 
> > 
> > [1] - Thread Parent: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2021-June/
> > 236451.html
> > [2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG-Jxaf8_gw
> > [3] - https://github.com/samba-in-kubernetes/samba-container
> > [4] - https://quay.io/samba.org
> > 
> > -- John M.