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compute-tools(7)

Manage systemd-nspawn containers

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

Build a new container:

sudo container build -n NAME

Start a container:

sudo container start -n NAME

Stop a container:

sudo container stop -n NAME

Remove a container:

sudo container remove -n NAME

List container on the system:

sudo container list

Show container version:

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 < <[email protected]> > and others.

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