AM5728: How to disable containerd/docker

Nathan Wright

Intellectual 782 points

Part Number: AM5728

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I am trying to do the same thing for am57xx-evm on sdk 9 as this post.

I added this to my image (not local.conf)...

IMAGE_INSTALL:remove = "docker"
RDEPENDS:packagegroup-arago-base:remove = "docker"

I confirmed they removals are in the image environment (-e).

When I build, /usr/bin/containerd is still there. container service is in systemd.

It does not appear to have worked like it did in the other post for AM62.

Any ideas? Does this have to be in local.conf?

Thanks,

Nathan

6 months ago

0 Josue Zamitiz-Ayala 6 months ago

TI__Mastermind 33165 points

Hello Nathan,

It seems like containerd daemon might not be completely related to docker and there could be other modules that depend on it. Our teams advise would be to build your own layer as advised by Andreas https://e2e.ti.com/support/processors-group/processors/f/processors-forum/1497887/am625-how-to-disable-containerd-and-charon-process/5756023#5756023.

Re-assigning to our Yocto engineer.

-Josue

0 Jared McArthur 6 months ago in reply to Josue Zamitiz-Ayala

TI__Mastermind 19060 points

Hi Nathan,

If you want to disable the containerd service, you can do so with a bbappend.

Create a file named: containerd_%.bbappend
Place the following in the file:
```
SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN} = "disable"
```
Ensure that the file is read within your bblayers.

Best,
Jared

0 Nathan Wright 6 months ago in reply to Jared McArthur

Intellectual 782 points

I think that's the wrong recipe to append.

I don't have a containerd_*.bb file in any layer. I have a containerd-opencontainers_git.bb.

Having this in my layer...

cat recipes-containers/containerd/containerd-opencontainers_%.bbappend
SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN} = "disable"

...does prevent the containerd service from being enabled in systemd. Which is good because I find containerd eating 40% of the arm cpu for no apparent reason at times.

The original question remains unanswered. How does one prevent the containerd-opencontainers recipe from being installed?

It seems to come from...

packagegroup-arago-base -> docker
recipes-containers/docker/docker.inc:RDEPENDS:${PN} += "virtual-containerd virtual-runc"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/containerd ?= "containerd-opencontainers"

I tried simply removing meta-virtualization from the layer stack, but then parsing complains about its abscence.

0 Jared McArthur 6 months ago in reply to Nathan Wright

TI__Mastermind 19060 points

Hi Nathan,

You can try adding docker to the IMAGE_INSTALL:remove or PACKAGE_EXCLUDE variables in your local.conf.

Best,
Jared

0 Nathan Wright 6 months ago in reply to Jared McArthur

Intellectual 782 points

Hi Jared,

Placing the entries in to the local.conf did prevent the installation of containerd.

Thanks,

Nathan

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AM5728: How to disable containerd/docker