< / > Manuel Aguilera

Dockerize Rust Apps

2023-04-03

Given a simple rust app:

use actix_web::{get, App, HttpResponse, HttpServer, Responder};

#[get("/")]
async fn hello() -> impl Responder {
    HttpResponse::Ok().body("Hello world!")
}

#[actix_web::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    HttpServer::new(|| {
        App::new()
        .service(hello)
    })
    .bind(("0.0.0.0", 8080))?
    .run()
    .await
}

A simple way to build a container:

FROM rust as buildenv

WORKDIR /my-rust-app/
COPY ./ /my-rust-app/

RUN cargo build --release

FROM debian
COPY --from=buildenv /my-rust-app/target/release/my-rust-app /bin/my-rust-app


EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["my-rust-app"]

running time podman build . -t myapp

output:

[1/2] STEP 1/4: FROM rust AS buildenv
[1/2] STEP 2/4: WORKDIR /my-rust-app/
--> Pushing cache []:8c83adb38edbcc03512f6328725a91e79f21a141a787fb52e35921b2769fcd05
--> 3fd77c028c7
[1/2] STEP 3/4: COPY ./ /my-rust-app/
--> Pushing cache []:80e418199b8b50c73dd439f0435b7e46c54209032e3ad31e4b4f4a9a77a126fd
--> 74ef634f7a2
[1/2] STEP 4/4: RUN cargo build --release
    Updating crates.io index
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   Compiling once_cell v1.17.0
   Compiling scopeguard v1.1.0
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   Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.50
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   Compiling itoa v1.0.5
   Compiling cc v1.0.78
   Compiling parking_lot v0.12.1
   Compiling tracing-core v0.1.30
   Compiling mio v0.8.5
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   Compiling signal-hook-registry v1.4.0
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   Compiling pkg-config v0.3.26
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   Compiling unicode-ident v1.0.6
   Compiling quote v1.0.23
   Compiling zstd-sys v2.0.5+zstd.1.5.2
   Compiling tracing v0.1.37
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   Compiling percent-encoding v2.2.0
   Compiling pin-utils v0.1.0
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   Compiling local-waker v0.1.3
   Compiling tinyvec_macros v0.1.0
   Compiling crc32fast v1.3.2
   Compiling tinyvec v1.6.0
   Compiling alloc-stdlib v0.2.2
   Compiling http v0.2.8
   Compiling aho-corasick v0.7.20
   Compiling tokio-util v0.7.4
   Compiling rand_core v0.6.4
   Compiling crypto-common v0.1.6
   Compiling block-buffer v0.10.3
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   Compiling httparse v1.8.0
   Compiling adler v1.0.2
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   Compiling zstd v0.11.2+zstd.1.5.2
   Compiling actix-http v3.2.2
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   Compiling my-rust-app v0.1.0 (/my-rust-app)
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 10m 36s
--> Pushing cache []:6d2676c0531e99f67c87a9071f0f2e64cc813dd2d5c9deee67a672049cb26757
--> f708f5059fd
[2/2] STEP 1/4: FROM debian
[2/2] STEP 2/4: COPY --from=buildenv /my-rust-app/target/release/my-rust-app /bin/my-rust-app
--> Using cache 44fd16393a076ddd6e232402d5f9bfe6857cb3ee5f76b490420886757c5c4e62
--> Pushing cache []:1a0c79182d0ab95843cac387fba2d3c8fef98b0405280a708e2b75a83cc3a276
--> 44fd16393a0
[2/2] STEP 3/4: EXPOSE 8080
--> Using cache 215f72285e756bae63614f5f09b367cb56d2c7c9dae3d184d3f285b5ef7ff194
--> Pushing cache []:e25efcdf8981be13c6cfd524659f22e606062148f856485d428a43c872a15fa2
--> 215f72285e7
[2/2] STEP 4/4: CMD ["my-rust-app"]
--> Using cache de6d066b8bc55766d2bef1853639c0a1251b9108a73b044a0bb3473b811ebed9
[2/2] COMMIT myapp
--> Pushing cache []:66f7b265140851d2130d78c0a570f6aa8bf21692fc766015c66ef116f6fd54fb
--> de6d066b8bc
Successfully tagged localhost/myapp:latest
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real	10m27.937s
user	0m0.132s
sys	0m0.143s

Running the app podman run -p 8080:8080 myapp


🍺 manuel@argente ~/Ocio/my-rust-app $ curl localhost:8080
Hello world!🍺 manuel@argente ~/Ocio/my-rust-app $