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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.
-- 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.