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.

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