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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.
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¶
* 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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