.. Open Infrastructure: compute-tools

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container
=========

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Manage systemd-nspawn containers
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:manual section: 1
:manual group: Open Infrastructure

Synopsis
========

| **container** 'COMMAND' ['OPTIONS']
| **container** 'COMMAND1','COMMAND2',... 'COMMANDn'

Description
===========

compute-tools provides the system integration for managing containers using
systemd-nspawn.

Options
=======

The following **container** common options are available:

-n, --name='NAME':
  Specify container name.

Commands
========

The following **container** commands are available:

build:
  Build a new container, see container-build(1).

start:
  Start a container, see container-start(1).

restart:
  Restart a container, see container-restart(1).

stop:
  Stop a container, see container-stop(1).

remove:
  Remove a container, see container-remove(1).

move:
  Rename a container, see container-move(1).

console:
  Attach console to a container, see container-console(1).

enter:
  Enter a container namespace, see container-enter(1).

run:
  Execute commands in a container namespace, see container-run(1).

info:
  Show specific information of a container, see container-info(1).

key:
  Manage GnuPG keyring for container operations, see container-key(1).

limit:
  Limit resources of a container, see container-limit(1).

list:
  List container on the system, see container-list(1).

log:
  Show container log, see container-log(1).

status:
  Show container status, see container-status(1).

top:
  Dynamic list of container on the system, see container-top(1).

update:
  Update the packages installed in a container.

version:
  Show container version, see container-version(1).

Files
=====

The following files are used:

/etc/compute-tools/container.conf, /etc/compute-tools/container.conf.d/\*.conf:
  Container configuration files.

/usr/bin/container, /usr/bin/cnt:
  Container program.

/usr/bin/container-shell, /usr/bin/cntsh:
  Container shell program.

/usr/libexec/container:
  Container commands.

/usr/share/compute-tools/:
  Container shared data.

/usr/share/doc/compute-tools:
  Container documentation files.

/var/cache/container:
  Container cache directory.

/var/lib/machines:
  Container root directory.

/var/log/compute-tools:
  Container log files.

See also
========

| machinectl(1),
| systemd-nspawn(1).

Homepage
========

More information about compute-tools and the Open Infrastructure project can be
found on the homepage (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.