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CONTAINER-CREATE-C(1) Open Infrastructure CONTAINER-CREATE-C(1)

container-create-curl - Create a Debian based container by downloading a tarball over the network

container create -s curl [OPTIONS]

The curl container creation script uses curl(1) to download a tarball over the network to create a Debian based container.

Depending on the tarball this script otherwise creates a pure Debian system with three modificiations:

•hostname is set (container name) in /etc/hostname

•systemd machine-id is generated in /etc/machine-id

•root password is set (user specified or 16 random characters)

The following script options are available:

-n, --name=NAME

Specify container name.

-a, --architecture=ARCHITECTURE

Specify container architecture.

"--clean*

Remove downloaded tarball after successfull container creation.

-p, --root-password=PASSWORD

Specify the root password, defaults to a random 16 character password.

--server=SERVER

Specify the image server to download from, defaults to https://get.open-infrastructure.net/system/container/debian.

--setup=SETUP

--system=SYSTEM

Create a Debian 9 (stretch) based container with same architecture as the host system:

sudo container create -s curl -n stretch.example.net

Create a Debian 9 (stretch) based container with different architecture as the host system:

sudo container create -s curl -n stretch-i386.example.net — --system debian-stretch-current_i386.system.tar.xz

The following files are used:

/etc/open-infrastructure/container/config

Container configuration files.

/usr/share/open-infrastructure/container/scripts

Container creation scripts.

/usr/share/doc/compute-tools

Container documentation.

/var/lib/machines

Container directory.

/var/cache/open-infrastructure/container

Container cache directory.

compute-tools will download tarballs from a server expecting that the images are tarballs with either gzip, lzip, xz, or no compression. See container-images.sh as an example on how to create your own container images.

compute-tools(7), container(1).

More information about compute-tools and the Open Infrastructure project can be found on the homepage at https://open-infrastructure.net.

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

Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System at https://bugs.debian.org.

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

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