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 < <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> > and others.

Open Infrastructure                               compute-tools                                 COMPUTE-TOOLS(7)