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Charlie Doern 280f5d8cb0 podman ssh work, using new c/common interface
implement new ssh interface into podman

this completely redesigns the entire functionality of podman image scp,
podman system connection add, and podman --remote. All references to golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
have been moved to common as have native ssh/scp execs and the new usage of the sftp package.

this PR adds a global flag, --ssh to podman which has two valid inputs `golang` and `native` where golang is the default.
Users should not notice any difference in their everyday workflows if they continue using the golang option. UNLESS they have been using an improperly verified ssh key, this will now fail. This is because podman was incorrectly using the
ssh callback method to IGNORE the ssh known hosts file which is very insecure and golang tells you not yo use this in production.

The native paths allows for immense flexibility, with a new containers.conf field `SSH_CONFIG` that specifies a specific ssh config file to be used in all operations. Else the users ~/.ssh/config file will be used.
podman --remote currently only uses the golang path, given its deep interconnection with dialing multiple clients and urls.

My goal after this PR is to go back and abstract the idea of podman --remote from golang's dialed clients, as it should not be so intrinsically connected. Overall, this is a v1 of a long process of offering native ssh, and one that covers some good ground with podman system connection add and podman image scp.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>
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Quick overview of podman system tests. The idea is to use BATS, but with a framework for making it easy to add new tests and to debug failures.

Quick Start

Look at 030-run.bats for a simple but packed example. This introduces the basic set of helper functions:

  • setup (implicit) - resets container storage so there's one and only one (standard) image, and no running containers.

  • parse_table - you can define tables of inputs and expected results, then read those in a while loop. This makes it easy to add new tests. Because bash is not a programming language, the caller of parse_table sometimes needs to massage the returned values; 015-run.bats offers examples of how to deal with the more typical such issues.

  • run_podman - runs command defined in $PODMAN (default: 'podman' but could also be './bin/podman' or 'podman-remote'), with a timeout. Checks its exit status.

  • is - compare actual vs expected output. Emits a useful diagnostic on failure.

  • die - output a properly-formatted message to stderr, and fail test

  • skip_if_rootless - if rootless, skip this test with a helpful message.

  • skip_if_remote - like the above, but skip if testing podman-remote

  • random_string - returns a pseudorandom alphanumeric string

Test files are of the form NNN-name.bats where NNN is a three-digit number. Please preserve this convention, it simplifies viewing the directory and understanding test order. In particular, 00x tests should be reserved for a first-pass fail-fast subset of tests:

bats test/system/00*.bats || exit 1
bats test/system

...the goal being to provide quick feedback on catastrophic failures without having to wait for the entire test suite.

Running tests

To run the tests locally in your sandbox, you can use one of these methods:

  • make;PODMAN=./bin/podman bats ./test/system/070-build.bats # runs just the specified test
  • make;PODMAN=./bin/podman bats ./test/system # runs all
  • make;PODMAN=./bin/podman NETWORK_BACKEND=netavark bats ./test/system # Assert & enable netavark testing

To test as root:

  • $ PODMAN=./bin/podman sudo --preserve-env=PODMAN bats test/system

Analyzing test failures

The top priority for this scheme is to make it easy to diagnose what went wrong. To that end, podman_run always logs all invoked commands, their output and exit codes. In a normal run you will never see this, but BATS will display it on failure. The goal here is to give you everything you need to diagnose without having to rerun tests.

The is comparison function is designed to emit useful diagnostics, in particular, the actual and expected strings. Please do not use the horrible BATS standard of [ x = y ]; that's nearly useless for tracking down failures.

If the above are not enough to help you track down a failure:

Debugging tests

Some functions have dprint statements. To see the output of these, set PODMAN_TEST_DEBUG="funcname" where funcname is the name of the function or perhaps just a substring.

Requirements

The jq tool is needed for parsing JSON output.

Further Details

TBD. For now, look in helpers.bash; each helper function has (what are intended to be) helpful header comments. For even more examples, see and/or run helpers.t; that's a regression test and provides a thorough set of examples of how the helpers work.