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-container-tools - Manage systemd-nspawn containers
-==================================================
-
-
-1. 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)
-
-container-tools provides the system integration for managing containers using
-systemd-nspawn.
-
-
-2. Download
------------
-
- * Upstream Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools/upstream
- * Upstream Sources: https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools
- * Debian Releases: https://files.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools/debian
- * Debian Sources: https://sources.progress-linux.org/users/daniel/debian/packages/open-infrastructure-container-tools
-
-
-3. Installation
----------------
-
-3.1 Source
-----------
-
- 1. sudo apt install asciidoc git docbook-xml docbook-xsl libxml2-utils make xsltproc dbus systemd-container
- 2. git clone https://sources.open-infrastructure.net/software/container-tools
- 3. cd container-tools && sudo make install
-
-3.2 Debian 9 (stretch) and newer
---------------------------------
-
- * sudo apt install container-tools
-
-
-4. Development
---------------
-
-Bug reports, feature requests, and patches are welcome via Debian Bug Tracking System:
-
- * https://bugs.debian.org
-
-Please base them against the 'next' Git branch using common sense:
-
- * https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
-
-
-5. Known Limitations
---------------------
-
- * This version of container-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,
- see https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
-
-
-6. Usage
---------
-
- * Create a new container:
- sudo container create -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-tools version:
- container version
-
-See container(1) for a list of all container commands.
-
-
-7. 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/
-
-
-8. Authors
-----------
-
- * Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net>