Mikrotik Netinstall in a Container

Overview

This container is designed to run on alternate platforms (eg. ARM/ARM64) and to facilitate a simple netinstall experience

Enviroment Variables

Name	Default	Description
NETINSTALL_ADDR	192.168.88.1	Client IP Address for Netinstall to assign
NETINSTALL_RESET	`<null>`	Add `-r` to Netinstall arguments (https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Netinstall#Netinstall-InstructionsforLinux)
NETINSTALL_ARCH	mipsbe	CPU Architecture to use when selecting npk (Optional)
LOAD_VERSION	`<null>`	RouterOS version to use when selecting npk (Optional)
NETINSTALL_NPK	`routeros-${NETINSTALL_ARCH}-${LOAD_VERSION}.npk"`	NPK for Netinstall to use

Note: The -k and -s netinstall arguments are not implemented yet

Usage on RouterOS v7

With the implementation of containers in ROSv7, we can now enjoy a netinstall experience from another Mikrotik

Testing has been completed with a RB4011 (v7.6b8) running the container to flash a RB2011

Steps

The below steps will create a container linking to ether5, and set netinstall to load the routeros-mipsbe-6.48.6.npk NPK file

Enable containers and install package (refer wiki)
Create folder images under disk1
Upload npk files to images folder

Create veth interface

/interface veth add address=192.168.88.6/24 gateway=192.168.88.1 name=veth1

Create bridge
```
/interface bridge add name=dockers
```

Add veth and physical port to bridge

/interface bridge port add bridge=dockers interface=veth1
/interface bridge port add bridge=dockers interface=ether5

Create mount to contain npk files

/container mounts add dst=/app/images name=images src=/disk1/images

Create enviroment set, and specify npk file to use

/container envs add key=NETINSTALL_NPK name=NETINSTALL value=routeros-mipsbe-6.48.6.npk

Create container

/container add remote-image=semaja2/mikrotik-netinstall:latest envlist=NETINSTALL interface=veth1 logging=yes mounts=images workdir=/app

Usage with Podman

TODO

Usage with Docker

Due to limitations with Docker, the container can only work via the --network=host network parameter, as such this is only useful on Linux as this driver is not available for Windows/MacOS

The host networking driver only works on Linux hosts, and is not supported on Docker Desktop for Mac, Docker Desktop for Windows, or Docker EE for Windows Server.