Upgrade runc on Ubuntu

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Lately I’ve been encountering some errors that, after some research, I discovered that the resolution was to upgrade my runc version. Since searching for upgrade runc did not yield any results I’ve decided to write this quick guide.

First verify your current runc version:

$ runc --version

Mine was:

runc version 1.0.0-rc10
commit: dc9208a3303feef5b3839f4323d9beb36df0a9dd
spec: 1.0.1-dev

How to upgrade?

Generally you have two options:

  1. Use the official runc releases binary file, found here.
  2. Build runc from the source code, which is the procedure I’ll cover in this post.

The instructions might change over time, so the official ones can be found here. I’ll list down the steps I took.

Building and upgrading runc from source code

runc currently supports the Linux platform with various architecture support. It must be built with Go version 1.13 or higher.

In order to enable seccomp support you will need to install libseccomp on your platform. On Ubuntu this can be done with:

$ sudo apt-get update -y
$ sudo apt-get install -y libseccomp-dev

Navigate to your $GOPATH/src directory:

$ cd $GOPATH/src

Create the following directory:

$ mkdir github.com/opencontainers

And run these commands:

$ cd github.com/opencontainers
$ git clone https://github.com/opencontainers/runc
$ cd runc
$ make
$ sudo make install

runc will be installed to /usr/local/sbin/runc on your system.

Notes:

  • If you encounter errors on the sudo make install command then it most likely since you are missing some packages. The output command should include the missing package name, simply install the missing package with apt-get install.

Validate your runc version:

$ runc --version
runc version 1.0.0-rc92+dev
commit: 636f23dd21bda3a7d54c134f7612e9a25522e5f5
spec: 1.0.2-dev
go: go1.14.6
libseccomp: 2.4.3

I hope this simple guide helped you guys!

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