Add ulimit annotation to kube gen & play

Add a podman ulimit annotation to kube generate and play.
If a container has a container with ulimits set, kube gen
will add those as an annotation to the generated yaml.
If kube play encounters the ulimit annotation, it will set
ulimits for the container being played.

Signed-off-by: Urvashi Mohnani <umohnani@redhat.com>

libpod/define/annotations.go

@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ const (
 	// of the init container.
 	InitContainerType = "io.podman.annotations.init.container.type"
 
+	// UlimitAnnotation is used by kube play when playing a kube yaml to specify the ulimits
+	// of the container
+	UlimitAnnotation = "io.podman.annotations.ulimit"
+
 	// MaxKubeAnnotation is the max length of annotations allowed by Kubernetes.
 	MaxKubeAnnotation = 63
 )

libpod/kube.go

@@ -531,6 +531,24 @@ func simplePodWithV1Containers(ctx context.Context, ctrs []*Container) (*v1.Pod,
 			}
 		}
 
+		if ctr.config.Spec.Process != nil {
+			var ulimitArr []string
+			defaultUlimits := util.DefaultContainerConfig().Ulimits()
+			for _, ulimit := range ctr.config.Spec.Process.Rlimits {
+				finalUlimit := strings.ToLower(strings.ReplaceAll(ulimit.Type, "RLIMIT_", "")) + "=" + strconv.Itoa(int(ulimit.Soft)) + ":" + strconv.Itoa(int(ulimit.Hard))
+				// compare ulimit with default list so we don't add it twice
+				if cutil.StringInSlice(finalUlimit, defaultUlimits) {
+					continue
+				}
+
+				ulimitArr = append(ulimitArr, finalUlimit)
+			}
+
+			if len(ulimitArr) > 0 {
+				kubeAnnotations[define.UlimitAnnotation] = strings.Join(ulimitArr, ",")
+			}
+		}
+
 		if !ctr.HostNetwork() {
 			hostNetwork = false
 		}

pkg/specgen/generate/kube/kube.go

@@ -273,6 +273,18 @@ func ToSpecGen(ctx context.Context, opts *CtrSpecGenOptions) (*specgen.SpecGener
 		s.ResourceLimits.Memory.Reservation = &memoryRes
 	}
 
+	ulimitVal, ok := opts.Annotations[define.UlimitAnnotation]
+	if ok {
+		ulimits := strings.Split(ulimitVal, ",")
+		for _, ul := range ulimits {
+			parsed, err := units.ParseUlimit(ul)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			s.Rlimits = append(s.Rlimits, spec.POSIXRlimit{Type: parsed.Name, Soft: uint64(parsed.Soft), Hard: uint64(parsed.Hard)})
+		}
+	}
+
 	// TODO: We don't understand why specgen does not take of this, but
 	// integration tests clearly pointed out that it was required.
 	imageData, err := opts.Image.Inspect(ctx, nil)

test/e2e/generate_kube_test.go

@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ var _ = Describe("Podman kube generate", func() {
 		Expect(pod.Spec.Containers[0].SecurityContext).To(BeNil())
 		Expect(pod.Spec.Containers[0].Env).To(BeNil())
 		Expect(pod).To(HaveField("Name", "top-pod"))
-		Expect(pod.Annotations).To(HaveLen(0))
 
 		numContainers := 0
 		for range pod.Spec.Containers {
@@ -1330,4 +1329,40 @@ USER test1`
 
 		Expect(pod.Spec.Volumes[0].Secret).To(BeNil())
 	})
+
+	It("podman generate & play kube with --ulimit set", func() {
+		ctrName := "ulimit-ctr"
+		ctrNameInKubePod := ctrName + "-pod-" + ctrName
+		session1 := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"run", "-d", "--name", ctrName, "--ulimit", "nofile=1231:3123", ALPINE, "sleep", "1000"})
+		session1.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(session1).Should(Exit(0))
+
+		outputFile := filepath.Join(podmanTest.RunRoot, "pod.yaml")
+		kube := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"kube", "generate", ctrName, "-f", outputFile})
+		kube.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(kube).Should(Exit(0))
+
+		b, err := os.ReadFile(outputFile)
+		Expect(err).ShouldNot(HaveOccurred())
+		pod := new(v1.Pod)
+		err = yaml.Unmarshal(b, pod)
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(pod.Annotations).To(HaveKey(define.UlimitAnnotation))
+		Expect(pod.Annotations[define.UlimitAnnotation]).To(ContainSubstring("nofile=1231:3123"))
+
+		rm := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"pod", "rm", "-t", "0", "-f", ctrName})
+		rm.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(rm).Should(Exit(0))
+
+		play := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"kube", "play", outputFile})
+		play.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(play).Should(Exit(0))
+
+		inspect := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"inspect", ctrNameInKubePod})
+		inspect.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(inspect).Should(Exit(0))
+		Expect(inspect.OutputToString()).To(ContainSubstring("RLIMIT_NOFILE"))
+		Expect(inspect.OutputToString()).To(ContainSubstring("1231"))
+		Expect(inspect.OutputToString()).To(ContainSubstring("3123"))
+	})
 })