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+.. Open Infrastructure: compute-tools
+
+.. Copyright (C) 2014-2021 Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net>
+..
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+
+..
+.. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.. the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.. (at your option) any later version.
+..
+.. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+.. GNU General Public License for more details.
+..
+.. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.. along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+=====================
+container-create-curl
+=====================
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Create a Debian based container by downloading a tarball over the network
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+:manual section: 1
+:manual group: Open Infrastructure
+
+Synopsis
+========
+
+| **container create -s curl** ['OPTIONS']
+
+Description
+===========
+
+The curl container creation script uses curl(1) to download a tarball over the
+network to create a Debian based container.
+
+Depending on the tarball this script otherwise creates a pure Debian system
+with three modificiations:
+
+ * hostname is set (container name) in /etc/hostname
+ * systemd machine-id is generated in /etc/machine-id
+ * root password is set (user specified or 16 random characters)
+
+Container images
+----------------
+
+compute-tools will download tarballs from a server expecting that the images are
+tarballs with either gzip, lzip, xz, or no compression. See container-images.sh
+as an example on how to create your own container images.
+
+Options
+=======
+
+The following script options are available:
+
+-n, --name='NAME':
+ Specify container name.
+
+-a, --architecture='ARCHITECTURE':
+ Specify container architecture.
+
+--clean:
+ Remove downloaded tarball after successfull container creation.
+
+-p, --root-password='PASSWORD':
+ Specify the root password, defaults to a random 16 character password.
+
+--server='SERVER':
+ Specify the image server to download from, defaults to
+ https://get.open-infrastructure.net/system/container/debian.
+
+--setup='SETUP':
+ Specify the setup image name to download, defaults to the value specified
+ through --system using the setup.tar.${COMPRESSION} suffix.
+
+--system='SYSTEM':
+ Specify the system image name to download, defaults to
+ debian-stretch-current_${ARCHITECTURE}.system.tar.${COMPRESSION} (where
+ ${ARCHITECTURE} is the host systems architecture and ${COMPRESSION} either
+ lz, xz, or gz depending on compressor availability on the host system).
+
+Examples
+========
+
+Create a Debian 9 (stretch) based container with same architecture as the host
+system:
+
+ sudo container create -s curl -n stretch.example.net
+
+Create a Debian 9 (stretch) based container with different architecture as the
+host system:
+
+ sudo container create -s curl -n stretch-i386.example.net -- --system debian-stretch-current_i386.system.tar.xz
+
+Files
+=====
+
+The following files are used:
+
+/etc/compute-tools/config:
+ Container configuration files.
+
+/usr/share/compute-tools/scripts:
+ Container creation scripts.
+
+/usr/share/doc/compute-tools:
+ Container documentation.
+
+/var/lib/machines:
+ Container directory.
+
+/var/cache/container:
+ Container cache directory.
+
+See also
+========
+
+| compute-tools(7),
+| container(1).
+
+Homepage
+========
+
+More information about compute-tools and the Open Infrastructure project can be
+found on the homepage at https://open-infrastructure.net.
+
+Contact
+=======
+
+Bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are
+welcome on the Open Infrastructure Software Mailing List
+<software@lists.open-infrastructure.net>.
+
+Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System
+(https://bugs.debian.org).
+
+Authors
+=======
+
+compute-tools were written by Daniel Baumann
+<daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> and others.