compute-tools - Manage systemd-nspawn containers
"[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.
•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
1.sudo apt install asciidoc git docbook-xml docbook-xsl
libxml2-utils make xsltproc dbus systemd-container
2.git clone
https://git.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools
3.cd compute-tools && sudo make install
•sudo apt install container-tools
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
•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, see
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
Create a new container:
sudo container create -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.
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/
compute-tools were written by Daniel Baumann
<daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> and others.