Using Red Hat subscriptions in builds

Use the following sections to run entitled builds on OKD.

Creating an image stream tag for the Red Hat Universal Base Image

To use Red Hat subscriptions within a build, you create an image stream tag to reference the Universal Base Image (UBI).

To make the UBI available in every project in the cluster, you add the image stream tag to the openshift namespace. Otherwise, to make it available in a specific project, you add the image stream tag to that project.

The benefit of using image stream tags this way is that doing so grants access to the UBI based on the registry.redhat.io credentials in the install pull secret without exposing the pull secret to other users. This is more convenient than requiring each developer to install pull secrets with registry.redhat.io credentials in each project.

Procedure

• To create an ImageStreamTag in the openshift namespace, so it is available to developers in all projects, enter:

  $ oc tag --source=docker registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest ubi:latest -n openshift

  You can alternatively apply the following YAML to create an ImageStreamTag in the openshift namespace: apiVersion: image.openshift.io/v1 kind: ImageStream metadata: name: ubi namespace: openshift spec: tags: - from: kind: DockerImage name: registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest name: latest referencePolicy: type: Source

• To create an ImageStreamTag in a single project, enter:

  $ oc tag --source=docker registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest ubi:latest

  You can alternatively apply the following YAML to create an ImageStreamTag in a single project: apiVersion: image.openshift.io/v1 kind: ImageStream metadata: name: ubi spec: tags: - from: kind: DockerImage name: registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest name: latest referencePolicy: type: Source

Adding subscription entitlements as a build secret

Builds that use Red Hat subscriptions to install content must include the entitlement keys as a build secret.

Prerequisites

You must have access to Red Hat entitlements through your subscription. The entitlement secret is automatically created by the Insights Operator.

RUN rm /etc/rhsm-host

Procedure

1. Add the etc-pki-entitlement secret as a build volume in the build configuration’s Docker strategy:

   strategy:
     dockerStrategy:
       from:
         kind: ImageStreamTag
         name: ubi:latest
       volumes:
       - name: etc-pki-entitlement
         mounts:
         - destinationPath: /etc/pki/entitlement
         source:
           type: Secret
           secret:
             secretName: etc-pki-entitlement

Running builds with Subscription Manager

Docker builds using Subscription Manager

Docker strategy builds can use the Subscription Manager to install subscription content.

Prerequisites

The entitlement keys must be added as build strategy volumes.

Procedure

Use the following as an example Dockerfile to install content with the Subscription Manager:

FROM registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest
RUN dnf search kernel-devel --showduplicates && \
        dnf install -y kernel-devel

Running builds with Red Hat Satellite subscriptions

Adding Red Hat Satellite configurations to builds

Builds that use Red Hat Satellite to install content must provide appropriate configurations to obtain content from Satellite repositories.

Prerequisites

• You must provide or create a yum-compatible repository configuration file that downloads content from your Satellite instance.

  Sample repository configuration

  [test-<name>]
  name=test-<number>
  baseurl = https://satellite.../content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=0
  sslverify=0
  sslclientkey = /etc/pki/entitlement/...-key.pem
  sslclientcert = /etc/pki/entitlement/....pem

Procedure

1. Create a ConfigMap containing the Satellite repository configuration file:

   $ oc create configmap yum-repos-d --from-file /path/to/satellite.repo

2. Add the Satellite repository configuration and entitlement key as a build volumes:

   strategy:
     dockerStrategy:
       from:
         kind: ImageStreamTag
         name: ubi:latest
       volumes:
       - name: yum-repos-d
         mounts:
         - destinationPath: /etc/yum.repos.d
         source:
           type: ConfigMap
           configMap:
             name: yum-repos-d
       - name: etc-pki-entitlement
         mounts:
         - destinationPath: /etc/pki/entitlement
         source:
           type: Secret
           secret:
             secretName: etc-pki-entitlement

Docker builds using Red Hat Satellite subscriptions

Docker strategy builds can use Red Hat Satellite repositories to install subscription content.

Prerequisites

• You have added the entitlement keys and Satellite repository configurations as build volumes.

Procedure

Use the following as an example Dockerfile to install content with Satellite:

FROM registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest
RUN dnf search kernel-devel --showduplicates && \
        dnf install -y kernel-devel

Additional resources

• How to use builds with Red Hat Satellite subscriptions and which certificate to use

Running entitled builds using SharedSecret objects

You can configure and perform a build in one namespace that securely uses RHEL entitlements from a Secret object in another namespace.

You can still access RHEL entitlements from OpenShift Builds by creating a Secret object with your subscription credentials in the same namespace as your Build object. However, now, in OKD 4.10 and later, you can access your credentials and certificates from a Secret object in one of the OKD system namespaces. You run entitled builds with a CSI volume mount of a SharedSecret custom resource (CR) instance that references the Secret object.

This procedure relies on the newly introduced Shared Resources CSI Driver feature, which you can use to declare CSI Volume mounts in OKD Builds. It also relies on the OKD Insights Operator.

The Shared Resources CSI Driver feature also belongs to the TechPreviewNoUpgrade feature set, which is a subset of the current Technology Preview features. You can enable the TechPreviewNoUpgrade feature set on test clusters, where you can fully test them while leaving the features disabled on production clusters. Enabling this feature set cannot be undone and prevents minor version updates. This feature set is not recommended on production clusters. See “Enabling Technology Preview features using feature gates” in the following “Additional resources” section.

Prerequisites

• You have enabled the TechPreviewNoUpgrade feature set by using the feature gates.

• You have a SharedSecret custom resource (CR) instance that references the Secret object where the Insights Operator stores the subscription credentials.

• You must have permission to perform the following actions:

  • Create build configs and start builds.

  • Discover which SharedSecret CR instances are available by entering the oc get sharedsecrets command and getting a non-empty list back.

  • Determine if the builder service account available to you in your namespace is allowed to use the given SharedSecret CR instance. In other words, you can run oc adm policy who-can use <identifier of specific SharedSecret> to see if the builder service account in your namespace is listed.

Procedure

1. Grant the builder service account RBAC permissions to use the SharedSecret CR instance by using oc apply with YAML content:

   Currently, kubectl and oc have hard-coded special case logic restricting the use verb to roles centered around pod security. Therefore, you cannot use oc create role …​ to create the role needed for consuming SharedSecret CR instances.

   Example oc apply -f command with YAML Role object definition

   $ oc apply -f - <<EOF
   apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
   kind: Role
   metadata:
     name: shared-resource-my-share
     namespace: my-namespace
   rules:
     - apiGroups:
         - sharedresource.openshift.io
       resources:
         - sharedsecrets
       resourceNames:
         - my-share
       verbs:
         - use
   EOF

2. Create the RoleBinding associated with the role by using the oc command:

   Example oc create rolebinding command

   $ oc create rolebinding shared-resource-my-share --role=shared-resource-my-share --serviceaccount=my-namespace:builder

3. Create a BuildConfig object that accesses the RHEL entitlements.

   Example YAML BuildConfig object definition

   apiVersion: build.openshift.io/v1
   kind: BuildConfig
   metadata:
     name: my-csi-bc
     namespace: my-csi-app-namespace
   spec:
     runPolicy: Serial
     source:
       dockerfile: |
         FROM registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest
         RUN ls -la /etc/pki/entitlement
         RUN rm /etc/rhsm-host
         RUN yum repolist --disablerepo=*
         RUN subscription-manager repos --enable rhocp-4.9-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
         RUN yum -y update
         RUN yum install -y openshift-clients.x86_64
     strategy:
       type: Docker
       dockerStrategy:
         volumes:
           - mounts:
               - destinationPath: "/etc/pki/entitlement"
             name: my-csi-shared-secret
             source:
               csi:
                 driver: csi.sharedresource.openshift.io
                 readOnly: true
                 volumeAttributes:
                   sharedSecret: my-share-bc
               type: CSI

4. Start a build from the BuildConfig object and follow the logs with the oc command.

   Example oc start-build command

   $ oc start-build my-csi-bc -F

   Example output from the oc start-build command

   Some sections of the following output have been replaced with …​

   ``` build.build.openshift.io/my-csi-bc-1 started Caching blobs under “/var/cache/blobs”.

   Pulling image registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest … Trying to pull registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest… Getting image source signatures Copying blob sha256:5dcbdc60ea6b60326f98e2b49d6ebcb7771df4b70c6297ddf2d7dede6692df6e Copying blob sha256:8671113e1c57d3106acaef2383f9bbfe1c45a26eacb03ec82786a494e15956c3 Copying config sha256:b81e86a2cb9a001916dc4697d7ed4777a60f757f0b8dcc2c4d8df42f2f7edb3a Writing manifest to image destination Storing signatures Adding transient rw bind mount for /run/secrets/rhsm STEP 1/9: FROM registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest STEP 2/9: RUN ls -la /etc/pki/entitlement total 360 drwxrwxrwt. 2 root root 80 Feb 3 20:28 . drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 154 Jan 27 15:53 .. -rw-r—r—. 1 root root 3243 Feb 3 20:28 entitlement-key.pem -rw-r—r—. 1 root root 362540 Feb 3 20:28 entitlement.pem time=”2022-02-03T20:28:32Z” level=warning msg=”Adding metacopy option, configured globally” —> 1ef7c6d8c1a STEP 3/9: RUN rm /etc/rhsm-host time=”2022-02-03T20:28:33Z” level=warning msg=”Adding metacopy option, configured globally” —> b1c61f88b39 STEP 4/9: RUN yum repolist —disablerepo=* Updating Subscription Management repositories.

...
--> b067f1d63eb
STEP 5/9: RUN subscription-manager repos --enable rhocp-4.9-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
Repository 'rhocp-4.9-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms' is enabled for this system.
time="2022-02-03T20:28:40Z" level=warning msg="Adding metacopy option, configured globally"
--> 03927607ebd
STEP 6/9: RUN yum -y update
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
...
Upgraded:
  systemd-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64          systemd-libs-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64
  systemd-pam-239-51.el8_5.3.x86_64
Installed:
  diffutils-3.6-6.el8.x86_64               libxkbcommon-0.9.1-1.el8.x86_64
  xkeyboard-config-2.28-1.el8.noarch
Complete!
time="2022-02-03T20:29:05Z" level=warning msg="Adding metacopy option, configured globally"
--> db57e92ff63
STEP 7/9: RUN yum install -y openshift-clients.x86_64
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
...
Installed:
  bash-completion-1:2.7-5.el8.noarch
  libpkgconf-1.4.2-1.el8.x86_64
  openshift-clients-4.9.0-202201211735.p0.g3f16530.assembly.stream.el8.x86_64
  pkgconf-1.4.2-1.el8.x86_64
  pkgconf-m4-1.4.2-1.el8.noarch
  pkgconf-pkg-config-1.4.2-1.el8.x86_64
Complete!
time="2022-02-03T20:29:19Z" level=warning msg="Adding metacopy option, configured globally"
--> 609507b059e
STEP 8/9: ENV "OPENSHIFT_BUILD_NAME"="my-csi-bc-1" "OPENSHIFT_BUILD_NAMESPACE"="my-csi-app-namespace"
--> cab2da3efc4
STEP 9/9: LABEL "io.openshift.build.name"="my-csi-bc-1" "io.openshift.build.namespace"="my-csi-app-namespace"
COMMIT temp.builder.openshift.io/my-csi-app-namespace/my-csi-bc-1:edfe12ca
--> 821b582320b
Successfully tagged temp.builder.openshift.io/my-csi-app-namespace/my-csi-bc-1:edfe12ca
821b582320b41f1d7bab4001395133f86fa9cc99cc0b2b64c5a53f2b6750db91
Build complete, no image push requested
```

Additional resources

• Importing simple content access certificates with Insights Operator

• Enabling features using feature gates

• Managing image streams

• build strategy