We try not to use "raw options" of commands.
But I don't see another universal solution for it.

@johannrichard Is there any real example that you want to achieve?

@Viacheslav, appreciate your question, and yes, there is:

ntopng/ntopng (https://hub.docker.com/r/ntop/ntopng/) as well as nprobe require that their configuration options and/or an option with the path to a config file are passed as arguments, it won’t just pick up a/any file, and thus won’t run without proper command arguments.

There are certainly others, but these are the ones I’m working towards running on VyOS.*

*Although it’s a bit off-topic: if you wonder why I want ntopng running in VyOS in a docker container:

• VyOS’ netflow output already being aggregated means it can’t easily be picked-up and worked with in ntopng running on another machine;
• from a license point of view, running ntopng on VyOS is ideal as this doesn’t require a commercial/paid license; and
• besides, even if I’d run ntopng elsewhere, I would need nprobe or another net flow exporter running in VyOS. And nprobe, if run as a docker image, requires command line arguments as well)

In T4014#114910, @johannrichard wrote:

@Viacheslav, appreciate your question, and yes, there is:

ntopng/ntopng (https://hub.docker.com/r/ntop/ntopng/) as well as nprobe require that their configuration options and/or an option with the path to a config file are passed as arguments, it won’t just pick up a/any file, and thus won’t run without proper command arguments.

There are certainly others, but these are the ones I’m working towards running on VyOS.*

I wrote an earlier comment and deleted it because I wasn't sure of its relevance. It was just a pointer to Podman's support for docker-compose. Docker describes Compose as "a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications."

It seems VyOS config is targeting the Podman CLI to define and run containers. There seems to be some level of manual work required to support additional arguments.

Could it be feasible/more efficient to target docker-compose instead of the Podman CLI to define and run containers?

I use docker-compose personally for both development and single node production environments. It makes it much simpler to manage multiple containers and dependencies at once.

Edited to add:
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose
docker-compose is a single binary written in Go (prev Python).

Certbot (specifically certbot/dns-cloudflare container) is another situation where a command & argument is required. Currently, I get around it by running a task-schedule to run the podman command directly (its a task because the container runs to completion). But having a way to do this via VyOS CLI would be extra helpful.

I've created a pull request which add support for this, and yes, it does use raw command.
I know that here we want to avoid "raw options" but I think this is one of the most needed feature and I don't see any other way else to do this. Until a better option is found, I think my PR should do just fine.

I added 3 configuration options

• command
• arguments
• entrypoint

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