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 ----------- * https://github.com/open-infrastructure/container-tools 3. Installation --------------- 3.1 Source ---------- 1. sudo apt install asciidoc git docbook-xml docbook-xsl libxml2-utils make xsltproc 2. git clone https://github.com/open-infrastructure/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 Github: * https://github.com/open-infrastructure/container-tools Please base them against the 'next' Git branch using common sense: * https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 5. Usage -------- * Create a new container: sudo container create -n NAME * Start a container: sudo container start -n NAME * Restart a container: sudo container restart -n NAME * Stop a container: sudo container stop -n NAME * Remove a container: sudo container remove -n NAME * Attach console to a container: sudo container console -n NAME * Limit ressources of a container: sudo container limit -n NAME --cpu-quota 10% * List container on the system: sudo container list * Show container-tools version: container version 6. 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/ 7. Authors ---------- * Daniel Baumann