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Name

compute-tools - Manage systemd-nspawn containers

Description

[A Linux container] is an operating-system-level virtualization environment for running multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single Linux control host.

-- Wikipedia (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC>)


compute-tools provides the system integration for managing containers using systemd-nspawn(1).

Download

Upstream Releases:
<https://get.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools/upstream>

Upstream Sources:
<https://git.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools>

Debian Releases:
<https://get.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools/debian>

Debian Sources:
<https://git.progress-linux.org/users/daniel/debian/packages/open-infrastructure-compute-tools>

Installation

Source

$ sudo apt install git make python3-docutils dbus systemd-container
$ git clone <https://git.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools>
$ cd compute-tools && sudo make install

Debian 9 (stretch) and newer

$ sudo apt install compute-tools

Development

Bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are welcome on the Open Infrastructure Software Mailing List (<https://lists.open-infrastructure.net/listinfo/software>).

Please base patches against the 'next' Git branch using common sense (<https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches>).

Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System (<https://bugs.debian.org>).

Known limitations

This version of compute-tools currently do not work with systemd-networkd and depend on ifupdown.

Using overlay, the upper directory can not be an NFS mount due to limitations in Linux' overlay filesystem (<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt>).

Usage

sudo container build -n NAME
sudo container start -n NAME
sudo container stop -n NAME
sudo container remove -n NAME
sudo container list
container version

See container(1) for a list of all container commands.

Links

* Linux Weekly News: Kernel / Containers


(<https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Containers>)




* Linux Weekly News: Security / Containers


(<https://lwn.net/Security/Index/#Containers>)




* 2016-02-24: Systemd vs. Docker


(<https://lwn.net/Articles/676831/>)




* 2015-06-10: Systemd and containers


(<https://lwn.net/Articles/647634/>)




* 2014-07-07: Control groups


(<https://lwn.net/Articles/604609/>)




* 2013-11-13: Systemd-Nspawn is Chroot on Steroids [LinuxCon Europe]


(<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7LlUs5D9p4>)




* 2013-11-03: Creating containers with systemd-nspawn


(<https://lwn.net/Articles/572957/>)




* 2013-02-06: Systemd lightweight containers


(<https://lwn.net/Articles/536033/>)




* 2013-01-04: Namespaces in operation


(<https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/>)

Authors

compute-tools were written by Daniel Baumann <<daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net>> and others.

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