Running open balena without internet crashed the API

ortix · May 3, 2021, 1:58pm

I’m experiencing issues where the api container is crashing when it tries to connect to github to pull the contracts. I need to run balena in a completely air-gapped environment.

I saw that it is possible to run air-gapped

github.com

balena-io/open-balena-api/blob/5318642d71e998af0ac101bc9de870c1e5fd914f/src/features/contracts/index.ts#L192


	await upsertEntries(
		mappedModel,
		existingKeys,
		typeMap.resource,
		typeMap.uniqueKey,
		rootApi,
	);
};

export const synchronizeContracts = async (contractRepos: RepositoryInfo[]) => {
	// We want to separate fetching from syncing, since in air-gapped environments the user can
	// preload the contracts folder inside the container and the sync should still work
	try {
		await fetchContractsLocally(contractRepos);
	} catch (err) {
		console.error(`Failed to fetch contracts, skipping...`, err.message);
	}

	// We don't have automatic dependency resolution, so the order matters here.
	for (const contractType of ['arch.sw', 'hw.device-type']) {
		try {

But I’m not sure how to actually get that to work. Any help on this?

ortix · May 5, 2021, 10:02am

Apparently this issue has been fixed in later versions of the container. For some reason my api container was running an outdated version. I changed the versions file to use the latest container and it has been solved

mpous · May 6, 2021, 10:17am

Thanks for explaining the solution!