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diff --git a/doc/container_registry/troubleshooting.md b/doc/container_registry/troubleshooting.md index 8008bf29935..14c4a7d9a63 100644 --- a/doc/container_registry/troubleshooting.md +++ b/doc/container_registry/troubleshooting.md @@ -5,27 +5,27 @@ 1. Check to make sure that the system clock on your Docker client and GitLab server have been synchronized (e.g. via NTP). -2. If you are using an S3-backed registry, double check that the IAM +2. If you are using an S3-backed Registry, double check that the IAM permissions and the S3 credentials (including region) are correct. See [the sample IAM policy](https://docs.docker.com/registry/storage-drivers/s3/) for more details. -3. Check the registry logs (e.g. `/var/log/gitlab/registry/current`) and the GitLab production logs +3. Check the Registry logs (e.g. `/var/log/gitlab/registry/current`) and the GitLab production logs for errors (e.g. `/var/log/gitlab/gitlab-rails/production.log`). You may be able to find clues there. -# Advanced Troubleshooting +## Advanced Troubleshooting -NOTE: The following section is only recommended for experts. +>**NOTE:** The following section is only recommended for experts. Sometimes it's not obvious what is wrong, and you may need to dive deeper into -the communication between the Docker client and the registry to find out +the communication between the Docker client and the Registry to find out what's wrong. We will use a concrete example in the past to illustrate how to diagnose a problem with the S3 setup. -## Example: Unexpected 403 error during push +### Unexpected 403 error during push -A user attempted to enable an S3-backed registry. The `docker login` step went +A user attempted to enable an S3-backed Registry. The `docker login` step went fine. However, when pushing an image, the output showed: ``` @@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ error parsing HTTP 403 response body: unexpected end of JSON input: "" ``` This error is ambiguous, as it's not clear whether the 403 is coming from the -GitLab Rails application, the Docker registry, or something else. In this +GitLab Rails application, the Docker Registry, or something else. In this case, since we know that since the login succeeded, we probably need to look -at the communication between the client and the registry. +at the communication between the client and the Registry. -The REST API between the Docker client and registry is [described +The REST API between the Docker client and Registry is [described here](https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/). Normally, one would just use Wireshark or tcpdump to capture the traffic and see where things went wrong. However, since all communication between Docker clients and servers @@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ are done over HTTPS, it's a bit difficult to decrypt the traffic quickly even if you know the private key. What can we do instead? One way would be to disable HTTPS by setting up an [insecure -registry](https://docs.docker.com/registry/insecure/). This could introduce a +Registry](https://docs.docker.com/registry/insecure/). This could introduce a security hole and is only recommended for local testing. If you have a production system and can't or don't want to do this, there is another way: use mitmproxy, which stands for Man-in-the-Middle Proxy. -## mitmproxy +### mitmproxy [mitmproxy](https://mitmproxy.org/) allows you to place a proxy between your client and server to inspect all traffic. One wrinkle is that your system @@ -70,10 +70,9 @@ needs to trust the mitmproxy SSL certificates for this to work. The following installation instructions assume you are running Ubuntu: 1. Install mitmproxy (see http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/install.html) - -2. Run `mitmproxy --port 9000` to generate its certificates. Enter CTRL-C to quit. - -3. Install the certificate from ~/.mitmproxy to your system: +1. Run `mitmproxy --port 9000` to generate its certificates. + Enter <kbd>CTRL</kbd>-<kbd>C</kbd> to quit. +1. Install the certificate from `~/.mitmproxy` to your system: ```sh sudo cp ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/mitmproxy-ca-cert.crt @@ -87,24 +86,22 @@ Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 1 added, 0 removed; done. Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d....done. ``` -## Verifying mitmproxy certifiactes - -To verify that the certificates are properly install, run: +To verify that the certificates are properly installed, run: ```sh mitmproxy --port 9000 ``` -This will run mitmproxy on port 9000. In another window, run: +This will run mitmproxy on port `9000`. In another window, run: ```sh curl --proxy http://localhost:9000 https://httpbin.org/status/200 ``` -If everything is setup correctly, then you will see information on the mitmproxy window and +If everything is setup correctly, you will see information on the mitmproxy window and no errors from the curl commands. -## Running the Docker daemon with a proxy +### Running the Docker daemon with a proxy For Docker to connect through a proxy, you must start the Docker daemon with the proper environment variables. The easiest way is to shutdown Docker (e.g. `sudo initctl stop docker`) @@ -118,10 +115,10 @@ docker daemon --debug This will launch the Docker daemon and proxy all connections through mitmproxy. -## Running the Docker client +### Running the Docker client -Now that we have mitmproxy and Docker running, we can now attempt to login and push a container -image. You may need to run as root to do this. For example: +Now that we have mitmproxy and Docker running, we can attempt to login and push +a container image. You may need to run as root to do this. For example: ```sh docker login s3-testing.myregistry.com:4567 @@ -141,4 +138,4 @@ The above image shows: What does this mean? This strongly suggests that the S3 user does not have the right [permissions to perform a HEAD request](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectHEAD.html). The solution: check the [IAM permissions again](https://docs.docker.com/registry/storage-drivers/s3/). -Once the right permissions were set, the error went away. +Once the right permissions were set, the error will go away. |