docker run --detach --restart=always \
	--log-driver json-file --log-opt max-size=10m \
	--cpus=1 --memory=64m --memory-reservation=64m \
	--cap-drop=ALL --cap-add=CHOWN --cap-add=SETUID --cap-add=SETGID --cap-add=DAC_OVERRIDE --cap-add=NET_RAW \
	-v /var/atlas-probe/etc:/var/atlas-probe/etc \
	-v /var/atlas-probe/status:/var/atlas-probe/status \
	-e RXTXRPT=yes \
	--name ripe-atlas --hostname "$(hostname --fqdn)" \
	jamesits/ripe-atlas:latest

Using Docker Compose

An example docker-compose.yaml is provided.

git clone https://github.com/Jamesits/docker-ripe-atlas.git
cd docker-ripe-atlas
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d

Registering the Probe

Fetch the generated public key:

cat /var/atlas-probe/etc/probe_key.pub

Register the probe with your public key. After the registration being manually processed, you'll see your new probe in your account.

Building

If you don't want to use the prebuilt image hosted on the Docker Hub, you can build your own image.

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -t ripe-atlas .

Note that building this container image requires BuildKit.

Caveats

IPv6

Docker 27.0.1 enabled IPv6 (incl. ip6tables and NATv6) by default.

If you are on older versions: Docker does not enable IPv6 by default. If you want IPv6 support, some level of setup and a basic understanding of IPv6 is required. Swarm mode & some Kubernetes implementation supports IPv6 too with extra configuration.

IPv6 on Alpine Linux host

At the time of writing, docker package on Alpine Linux has problem connecting to outside of container on IPv6, this is caused by somehow docker package Alpine Linux doesn't set NAT routing on ip6tables, this could be fixed by

Add the following ip6tables rule directly:

ip6tables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s <Docker IPv6 subnet>/64 -o <Internet Interface> -j MASQUERADE

if you're using AWALL add following in private/:

"snat": [ 
	{ "src": ["<Docker IPv6 subnet>/64"], "out": "<Internet Interface>", "family" : "inet6" }
],

Using native address assignment

If you happened to have a block of static IPv6 addresses routed to your host, you can directly assign one of the addresses to the container. Edit /etc/docker/daemon.json and add native IPv6 address blocks, then restart the Docker daemon. An example:

{
  "ipv6": true,
  "fixed-cidr-v6": "2001:db8:a1a3::/48"
}

Notes:

These config work on Docker for Linux only
If daemon.json exists, merge the config lines instead of directly overwriting it; if it doesn't exist, create it manually
For more info, see the official doc

Using NAT (NPTv6)

If your ISP does not conform to BCOP 690 (very common), and/or your router cannot route smaller blocks of IPv6 to one server even if it has been assigned a block of valid IPv6 addresses (also very common), the method above might not work for you. As a workaround, you can setup NAT with either Docker's builtin experimental IPv6 NAT support, robbertkl/docker-ipv6nat or similar projects. Manual iptables/nftables NAT setup is also possible, but hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.

Firstly, edit kernel parameters to enable IPv6 routing.

cat > /etc/sysctl.d/50-docker-ipv6.conf <<EOF
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_ra=2
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1
EOF
sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/50-docker-ipv6.conf

Notes:

This potentially introduces more attack surface and might require you set up IPv6 firewall rules to make yourself safe
This might break your network and your mileage may vary
Swap eth0 with your primary network adapter name
If you use static IPv6 assignment instead of SLAAC, change accept_ra to 0

Secondly, create a IPv6 NAT enabled network.

docker network create --ipv6 --subnet=fd00:a1a3::/48 ripe-atlas-network
docker run -d --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro -v /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro --cap-drop=ALL --cap-add=NET_RAW --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --cap-add=SYS_MODULE --net=host --name=ipv6nat robbertkl/ipv6nat:latest

Finally, start the RIPE Atlas container with argument --net=ripe-atlas-network.

Auto Update

Use this recipe for auto updating the docker container.

docker run --detach --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock --name watchtower containrrr/watchtower --cleanup --label-enable

Then start the RIPE Atlas container with argument --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true.

Backup

All the config files are stored at /var/atlas-probe. Just backup it.

Running under Debian 10

When the host distro is Debian 10 or similarly old ones, you might need to add --security-opt seccomp:unconfined to the docker run command to make things work. We don't recommend using EOL'ed distros.

README.md

RIPE Atlas Docker Image

Requirements

Tags

Running

Using docker run