Re: [atomic-devel] Atomic Scan - pass image details to scanner

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

On 07/18/2016 04:31 AM, Dharmit Shah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm creating a custom scanner based on atomic scan and am kind of stuck
> at passing/fetching the details of image under scan to/in the scanner.
>
> While going through atomic source code, I figured that under
> `Atomic/scan.py` we access the image by `self.args.scan_targets`.
> However, I don't quite understand how it passes the details to custom
> scanner so that one can access image name in the scanner.
>
> I'd like to spin a container from the image and run some checks on the
> live container.
>
> Regards,
> Dharmit.
I believe it will just mount up the containers image onto a rootfs and 
expose the rootfs to the scanner.
The rootfs mount point will container the containerid as the directory 
name and the output will
be generated in a containerid name.  The scanner does not know if the 
rootfs came from a container
image, base image, vm's image or even the hosts "/".

atomic scan --rootfs /random/path

Will hand the scanner any directory.

One other interesting thing you can do is mount the container images 
content live.

atomic mount --live CONTAINERID /mnt