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, 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 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