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feat: Add an option to exclude root directory in tarball

Fixes #1375

Description

The issue is that images built by Kaniko cannot be pulled successfully by Flux because Kaniko adds an absolute directory path “/” which tar program used by Flux doesn’t allow.

This PR adds a new command line option --exclude-root-dir-tarball to allow excluding root directory in the tar archive.

Testing done:

  • Verified that all existing unit tests passed in a linux environment.
  • Verified that the updated Kaniko image can generate tarball without root directory and command flux pull artifact <oci> works properly.
    • Followed the public Kaniko tutorial here to set up local testing environment

Here are a few references about how the verification was performed.

# updated pod.yaml
  containers:
  - name: kaniko
    image: docker.io/zchen333/kaniko-project:latest
    args: ["--dockerfile=/workspace/dockerfile",
            "--context=dir://workspace",
            "--exclude-root-dir-tarball=true",
            "--destination=zchen333/kaniko"] # replace with your dockerhub account

# tested different forms of input
* `--exclude-root-dir-tarball=true` // true
* `--exclude-root-dir-tarball=false` // false
* `--exclude-root-dir-tarball` // true
* None // false by default

# dockerfile to test
echo 'FROM scratch AS builder' >> dockerfile
echo 'COPY clusters /tmp/clusters' >> dockerfile
echo 'COPY teleports /tmp/teleports' >> dockerfile
echo 'FROM scratch' >> dockerfile
echo 'COPY --from=builder /tmp /' >> dockerfile

# Kaniko logs
INFO[0001] Resolved base name scratch to builder
INFO[0001] No base image, nothing to extract
INFO[0001] No base image, nothing to extract
INFO[0001] Built cross stage deps: map[0:[/tmp]]
INFO[0001] No base image, nothing to extract
INFO[0001] Executing 0 build triggers
INFO[0001] Building stage 'scratch' [idx: '0', base-idx: '-1']
INFO[0001] Unpacking rootfs as cmd COPY clusters /tmp/clusters requires it.
INFO[0001] COPY clusters /tmp/clusters
INFO[0001] Taking snapshot of files...
INFO[0001] COPY teleport /tmp/teleport
INFO[0001] Taking snapshot of files...
INFO[0001] Saving file tmp for later use
INFO[0001] Deleting filesystem...
INFO[0001] No base image, nothing to extract
INFO[0001] Executing 0 build triggers
INFO[0001] Building stage 'scratch' [idx: '1', base-idx: '-1']
INFO[0001] Unpacking rootfs as cmd COPY --from=builder /tmp / requires it.
INFO[0001] COPY --from=builder /tmp /
INFO[0001] Taking snapshot of files...
INFO[0001] Pushing image to zchen333/kaniko
INFO[0003] Pushed index.docker.io/zchen333/kaniko@sha256:b0d296891d689a02c7c16b57d46defe08d2209ce3f4b17f7d0f65f198d32bb71


# Flux pull 
❯ flux pull artifact oci://index.docker.io/zchen333/kaniko@sha256:b0d296891d689a02c7c16b57d46defe08d2209ce3f4b17f7d0f65f198d32bb71 --output ./manifests
► pulling artifact from index.docker.io/zchen333/kaniko@sha256:b0d296891d689a02c7c16b57d46defe08d2209ce3f4b17f7d0f65f198d32bb71
✔ digest index.docker.io/zchen333/kaniko@sha256:b0d296891d689a02c7c16b57d46defe08d2209ce3f4b17f7d0f65f198d32bb71
✔ artifact content extracted to ./manifests

❯ ls ./manifests
clusters	teleport

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