Quay on Power

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RedHat Quay container registry platform is a container image registry for storing and building container images as well as distributing other OCI artifacts. You can utilize Quay.io to automate container builds, with integration to GitHub, Bitbucket, and more. Robot accounts allow you to lock down automated access and audit each deployment. Quay continually scans your containers for vulnerabilities, giving you complete visibility into known issues and how to fix them.

Well, here’s a great news for Power community! Quay has been recently added official support for ppc64le architecture. Recently, I worked on contributing Power support to Quay and the latest upstream image 3.9-unstable is now multi-arch with ppc64le architecture support. Soon, the next official release v3.8 will have Power support as well. In this blog, we will go through steps for deploying Quay on Power.

Pre-requisites:

• IBM Power resource for installing docker compose

You can use the PowerVS service at IBM Cloud or Minicloud to get your ppc64le virtual machine. This example uses a Centos 8 ppc64le VM.

• Install Docker engine on Power VM

mkdir /root/docker; cd /root/docker
wget https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/8/ppc64le/stable/Packages/docker-ce-20.10.10-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
wget https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/8/ppc64le/stable/Packages/docker-ce-cli-20.10.10-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
wget https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/8/ppc64le/stable/Packages/docker-ce-rootless-extras-20.10.10-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
wget https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/8/ppc64le/stable/Packages/containerd.io-1.4.11-3.1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
yum localinstall containerd.io-1.4.11-3.1.el8.ppc64le.rpm docker-ce-cli-20.10.10-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm docker-ce-20.10.10-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm docker-ce-rootless-extras-20.10.10-3.el8.ppc64le.rpm
service docker start

• Install Docker Compose on Power VM

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.5.0/docker-compose-linux-ppc64le" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

• Install Python 3.9

wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.13/Python-3.9.13.tgz
tar xvf Python-3.9.13.tgz
cd Python-3.9*/
./configure --enable-optimizations
sudo make altinstall

• Install Nodejs on Power VM

yum install nodejs -y

Deploy Quay on Power

1. Get Quay source code

git clone https://github.com/quay/quay.git
cd quay

2. Update docker compose files to use Power image

Update quay service in docker-compose.yaml and docker-compose.static to use multi-arch image that has Power support: quay.io/projectquay/quay:3.9-unstable

3. Start Quay

make local-dev-up

This will deploy quay on localhost:8080. You can access Quay UI on your browser at either https://localhost:8080 or https://<Power-VM-IP>:8080.

You can test it by pushing any image to your quay server. Refer these steps or follow tutorial section on your Quay UI.

That’s all folks! Thanks for reading. Hope you found this tutorial helpful :)