Tweety BIRD

This project puts BIRD in scratch docker container. It is available on Docker Hub and can be pulled using the following command.

docker pull alectolytic/bird

You will note that this is a tiny image.

$ docker images | grep docker.io/alectolytic/bird
docker.io/alectolytic/bird    latest    2af5c2001ea8    10 minutes ago    3.676 MB

BIRD (with defaults)

docker run -d --name bird -p 179:179 \
  alectolytic/bird

BIRD with custom configuration

docker run -d --name bird -p 179:179 \
  -v /path/to/bird.conf:/etc/bird.conf \
  alectolytic/bird

If you would like to preserve the default configuration, and extend it. You may add your configuration files to the /etc/bird.d directory. This is also exposed as a volume so that it may be mounted in other docker containers.

NOTE: If running on an SELinux enabled system, run chcon -Rt svirt_sandbox_file_t /path/to/bird.conf before staring the container.

Starting and stopping

You can start or stop bird container using the following command.

# Starting
docker start bird

# stopping
docker stop bird

Using the BIRD client

This container comes with full bird client. If you've started a bird docker container instance as shown about with --name bird, you can connect to the bird instance with the client by executing the following command.

docker exec -it bird /usr/sbin/birdc

Debugging

If debugging your configuration you can, do the following to run an instance inn interactive session.

docker run --rm -it -p 179:179 \
  -v /path/to/bird.conf:/etc/bird.conf \
  alectolytic/bird