COMPUTE-TOOLS(7)

NAME
compute-tools - Manage systemd-nspawn containers

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)

compute-tools provides the system integration for managing containers using systemd-nspawn(1).

DOWNLOAD
Upstream Releases:
https://get.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools/upstream

Upstream Sources:
https://git.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools

Debian Releases:
https://get.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools/debian

Debian Sources:
https://git.progress-linux.org/users/daniel/debian/packages/open-infrastructure-compute-tools

INSTALLATION

  Source
$ sudo apt install git make python3-docutils dbus systemd-container
$ git clone https://git.open-infrastructure.net/software/compute-tools
$ cd compute-tools && sudo make install

  Debian 9 (stretch) and newer
$ sudo apt install compute-tools

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).

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

This version of compute-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 (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt).

USAGE

Build a new container:
    sudo container build -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 version:
    container version

    See container(1) for a list of all container commands.

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/)

AUTHORS

compute-tools were written by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> and others.