On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:34 PM Valentyn Tymofieiev <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:48 AM Kyle Weaver <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The way the Python SDK currently does this is to use the version as the
>> default tag, eg 2.16.0. While master uses 2.16.0.dev. This means there
>> should never be any conflicts between a release and developer image, unless
>> the user deliberately changes the image tags.
>>
>> > if a users' pipeline is relies on a  container image released by Beam (
>> or maybe a third party), external updates to such container image may not
>> propagate to the pipeline workflow without an explicit pull
>>
>> There should only be one released container per release. Upgrades to a
>> container image should not happen independently of the release process.
>>
>
> Fair point, although we have not yet encountered issues requiring  an
> update of a previously released Docker, so I would not rule out
> considerations requiring us to re-release the image under the same tag. A
> scenario that is possible today is multiple pushes of container image to
> docker repo before the Beam release is finalized, so early adopters may be
> affected by stale images without  a pull.
>

This is an interesting problem. It is true that adopters of RCs may get
stuck pre-release candidates of those images. Could we still docker pull
only if user is trying to use a default and released image tag?


>
>
>> Note that so far I've just been discussing defaults. It's always possible
>> to use a custom container using environment_config, as mentioned earlier.
>>
>
> My understanding is that to pull or not to pull decision equally applies
> to custom image provided by environment config.
>
>
>> The goal is to make that unnecessary for most everyday use cases and
>> development. Using different container images for different transforms is a
>> more specialized use case worth a separate discussion.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:33 AM Valentyn Tymofieiev <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, I agree with Thomas that implicitly running `docker pull` is
>>>> confusing and requires some adjustments to work around. The user can always
>>>> run `docker pull` themselves if that's the intention.
>>>
>>>
>>> I understand that implicit pull may come across as surprising. However I
>>> see the  required adjustments as a better practice. I would argue that
>>> customized containers images should not reuse the same  name:tag
>>> combination, and it would also help the users avoid a situation where a
>>> runner may use a different container image in different execution
>>> environments.
>>> It may also help avoid issue where a user reports an issue with Beam,
>>> that others cannot reproduce only because a user was running a customized
>>> container on their local machine (and forgot about it).
>>> Also, if a users' pipeline is relies on a  container image released by
>>> Beam ( or maybe a third party), external updates to such container image
>>> may not propagate to the pipeline workflow without an explicit pull
>>>
>>>> > 1. Read sdk version from gradle.properties and use this as the
>>>> default tag. Done with Python, need to implement it with Java and Go.
>>>>
>>>> 100% agree with this one. Using the same tag for local and release
>>>> images has already caused a good deal of confusion. Filed BEAM-8570 and
>>>> BEAM-8571 [2][3].
>>>>
>>>> > 2. Remove pulling images before executing docker run command. This
>>>> should be fixed for Python, Java and Go.
>>>>
>>>> Valentyn (from [1]):
>>>> > I think pulling the latest image for the current tag is actually a
>>>> desired behavior, in case the external image was updated (due to a bug fix
>>>> for example).
>>>>
>>>> There's a PR for this [4]. Once we fix the default tag for Java/Go
>>>> containers, the dev and release containers will be distinct, which makes it
>>>> seldom important whether or not the image is `docker pull`ed. Anyway, I
>>>> agree with Thomas that implicitly running `docker pull` is confusing and
>>>> requires some adjustments to work around. The user can always run `docker
>>>> pull` themselves if that's the intention.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0f2ccbbe7969b91dc21ba331c1a30d730e268cc0355c1ac1ba0b7988@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E
>>>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-8570
>>>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-8571
>>>> [4] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9972
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:32 PM Ahmet Altay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I do not believe this is a blocker for Beam 2.16. I agree that it
>>>>> would be good to fix this.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 3:15 PM Hannah Jiang <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Thomas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for bring this up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now Python uses sdk version as a default tag, while Java and Go use
>>>>>> latest as a default tag. I agree using latest as a tag is problematic. 
>>>>>> The
>>>>>> reason only Python uses sdk version as a default tag is Python has
>>>>>> version.py so the version is easy to read. For Java and Go, we need to 
>>>>>> read
>>>>>> it from gradle.properties when creating images with the default tag and
>>>>>> when setting the default image.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is what we need to do:
>>>>>> 1. Read sdk version from gradle.properties and use this as the
>>>>>> default tag. Done with Python, need to implement it with Java and Go.
>>>>>> 2. Remove pulling images before executing docker run command. This
>>>>>> should be fixed for Python, Java and Go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a blocker for 2.16? If so and above are too much work for
>>>>>> 2.16 at the moment, we can hardcode the default tag for release branch 
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Using timestamp as a tag is an option as well, as long as runners
>>>>>> know which timestamp they should use.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hannah
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 10:13 AM Alan Myrvold <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, using the latest tag is problematic and can lead to unexpected
>>>>>>> behavior.
>>>>>>> Using a date/time or 2.17.0.dev-$USER tag would be better. The
>>>>>>> validates container shell script uses a datetime
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/6551d0937ee31a8e310b63b222dbc750ec9331f8/sdks/python/container/run_validatescontainer.sh#L87>
>>>>>>> tag, which allows a unique name if no two tests are run in the same 
>>>>>>> second.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 10:05 AM Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Want to bump this thread.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If the current behavior is to replace locally built image with the
>>>>>>>> last published, then this is not only unexpected for developers but 
>>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>>> problematic for the CI, where tests should run against what was built 
>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>> source. Or am I missing something?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 7:08 PM Thomas Weise <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Hannah,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I believe this is unexpected from the developer perspective. When
>>>>>>>>> building something locally, we do expect that to be used. We may need 
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> change to not pull when the image is available locally, at least when 
>>>>>>>>> it is
>>>>>>>>> a snapshot/master branch. Release images should be immutable anyways.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 4:13 PM Hannah Jiang <
>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A minor update, with custom container, the pipeline would not
>>>>>>>>>> fail, it throws out warning and moves on to `docker run` command.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 4:05 PM Hannah Jiang <
>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Brian
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> If we pull docker images, it always downloads from remote
>>>>>>>>>>> repository, which is expected behavior.
>>>>>>>>>>> In case we want to run a local image and pull it only when the
>>>>>>>>>>> image is not available at local, we can use `docker run` command 
>>>>>>>>>>> directly,
>>>>>>>>>>> without pulling it in advance. [1]
>>>>>>>>>>> In case we want to pull images only when they are not
>>>>>>>>>>> available at local, we can use `docker images -q` to check if 
>>>>>>>>>>> images are
>>>>>>>>>>> existing at local before pulling it.
>>>>>>>>>>> Another option is re-tag your local image, pass your image to
>>>>>>>>>>> pipeline and overwrite default one, but the code is still trying to 
>>>>>>>>>>> pull,
>>>>>>>>>>> so if your image is not pushed to the remote repository, it would 
>>>>>>>>>>> fail.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 1. https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/1498
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hannah
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:56 AM Brian Hulette <
>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm working on a demo cross-language pipeline on a local flink
>>>>>>>>>>>> cluster that relies on my python row coder PR [1]. The PR includes 
>>>>>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>>>>>> changes to the Java worker code, so I need to build a Java SDK 
>>>>>>>>>>>> container
>>>>>>>>>>>> locally and use that in the pipeline.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately, whenever I run the pipeline,
>>>>>>>>>>>> the apachebeam/java_sdk:latest tag is moved off of my locally 
>>>>>>>>>>>> built image
>>>>>>>>>>>> to a newly downloaded image with a creation date 2 weeks ago, and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>>>>> image is used instead. It looks like the reason is we run `docker 
>>>>>>>>>>>> pull`
>>>>>>>>>>>> before running the container [2]. As the comment says this should 
>>>>>>>>>>>> be a
>>>>>>>>>>>> no-op if the image already exists, but that doesn't seem to be the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> case. If
>>>>>>>>>>>> I just run `docker pull apachebeam/java_sdk:latest` on my local 
>>>>>>>>>>>> machine it
>>>>>>>>>>>> downloads the 2 week old image and happily informs me:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Status: Downloaded newer image for apachebeam/java_sdk:latest
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Does anyone know how I can prevent `docker pull` from doing
>>>>>>>>>>>> this? I can unblock myself for now just by commenting out the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> docker pull
>>>>>>>>>>>> command, but I'd like to understand what is going on here.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>> Brian
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9188
>>>>>>>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/runners/java-fn-execution/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/fnexecution/environment/DockerCommand.java#L80
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>

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